Thanks for reading and sharing, Jeremy. 🙌

Thank you so much for this. I really needed it.

😥 espero que pronto se quede solo como un mal recuerdo 🙌

I’m sure there’s a productive connection between @vgr.bsky.social’s essay and Stephen Wolfram’s latest work but it’s still a bit above my paygrade.

www.ted.com/talks/stephe...

So, yes, let’s avoid falling (again) into the optimism vs. pessimism trap and face the future with a techno-pragmatic, tragicomic, scenaric stance.

5/5

An additional and compatible argument would be a call to supersede both optimism and pessimism through the “tragicomic,” “scenaric stance” (J. Ogilvy) that arguably characterizes futures thinking for at least 3/4 of a century.

4/5

The element that, for me, is most philosophically retrograde in the manifesto is the binary choice between optimism and pessimism. In his critique, Karpf calls to supersede that with techno-pragmatism.

3/5

… for a discourse so keen to appear forward-thinking it sounds incredibly anachronistic. Here Karpf traces this discourse back to the early 90s Californian ideology but it may as well be traced back a century or two.

2/5