“It’s easy to imagine the end of the world, but we cannot imagine the end of capitalism.”
Why is it so difficult to see outside the box we’ve currently put ourselves in?
The author of this article imagines four possible futures based on combinations of scarcity or abundance of resources and a hierarchical or egalitarian social structure. Like all fictional utopias and dystopias, these postulations are not meant to accurately predict the future, but to point toward extreme potential end points of our current path. He draws heavily on science fiction to guide him, including the works of Cory Doctorow, Charlie Stross, Orson Scott Card and Star Trek.
For more fictional future takes, see my Dystopian Reading List.
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- Utopia by Charles Stross (readmorebooks.wordpress.com)
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