Atlas of Unfulfilled Warnings
Why do we consume science fiction and yet allow these systems to be built up around us? Surveillance in 1984, Soma in Brave New World, Skynet in Terminator - they have all told us warnings about the reach of science fiction... and yet we sit by while these systems are built around us.
Are they really warnings, or are they prophecies?
Atlas of Unfulfilled Warnings: From Thought Experiment to System
We can’t have a discussion about technology without referencing the mirrors we have seen in science fiction. When those futures begin to align with our lived experience we don’t panic. We accept them, and move onto the next.
James Rickard
Why Seeing the Future Does Not Stop Us
In every age we believe that we are smarter, more advanced, better equipped, further evolved and have greater understanding than those that come before us. When it comes to technology we seem eager to allow these cautionary tales to come to life.
James Rickard
When Warnings Become Specifications
Readers learn how systems work, but endure the environments through survival, navigation and endurance. Then go and build them for us to live in.
James Rickard