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June 6, 2012 2:59 PM   Subscribe

What happened to the future? David Graeber on the failure of the future.

This is an interesting article that postulates that the American/neo-liberal system is failing because it lacks competition previously provided by the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc. We had a long discussion before about another Graeber article; perhaps this time we can do it in a respectful way that can include the author, who is a MeFi member.
posted by wuwei (3 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: It's fine if this is an interesting article someone wants to make a post about, but it needs to not be a post that includes metacommentary about how previous posts went or so forth. -- cortex



 
That's a truly ridiculous number of words to say, 'Gee, this technology stuff is harder than we thought it was.'
posted by Malor at 3:10 PM on June 6, 2012


Didn't Avery Brooks (and many others) already cover this topic twelve years ago? 2000 was the magical "year of the future", and 2012 is just the depressing after-party.
posted by Strange Interlude at 3:13 PM on June 6, 2012


Helicopters are basically flying cars. We have had them since 1936.
posted by dng at 3:13 PM on June 6, 2012


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