Comments on: Anachronistic Infrastructure http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/11/26/anachronistic-infrastructure/ a gift to you and me accidently on purpose somewhere but mostly in the city Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:46:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Administrator http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/11/26/anachronistic-infrastructure/#comment-325 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:07:21 +0000 http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/11/26/anachronistic-infrastructure/#comment-325 Wonderful Alison! Wonderful Alison!

]]> by: al http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/11/26/anachronistic-infrastructure/#comment-324 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:38:23 +0000 http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/11/26/anachronistic-infrastructure/#comment-324 I could give you some things to read (not science fiction but philosophy of technology) but that will not help. I agree with your friend: stay with the problem, because it is a big one, the biggest one we have to live within. It is the problem of our age, which is the one we made. The age of what? That depends on who you ask: the age of bits, the age of information, the age of fibre cable. The core of the problem is eternal: the rich are rich in what the age produces, the poor are poor always. We seek justice because we must, because this too is human. The way to justice is also what we make, from our age and out of it. We use what we have. Hope is one thing we have. Pragmatism is another. Stories, also. Besides that, we work within the materiality of the time and space we find ourselves in. The future, because it never comes, is always better and worse than the present. The past is the same way. The present, where you are sitting with your lucid dreams, is both better and worse, beginning and end, terror and possibility. I am glad to join you, clear-eyed, in living it. I could give you some things to read (not science fiction but philosophy of technology) but that will not help. I agree with your friend: stay with the problem, because it is a big one, the biggest one we have to live within. It is the problem of our age, which is the one we made. The age of what? That depends on who you ask: the age of bits, the age of information, the age of fibre cable.

The core of the problem is eternal: the rich are rich in what the age produces, the poor are poor always. We seek justice because we must, because this too is human. The way to justice is also what we make, from our age and out of it.

We use what we have. Hope is one thing we have. Pragmatism is another. Stories, also. Besides that, we work within the materiality of the time and space we find ourselves in. The future, because it never comes, is always better and worse than the present. The past is the same way. The present, where you are sitting with your lucid dreams, is both better and worse, beginning and end, terror and possibility. I am glad to join you, clear-eyed, in living it.

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