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Bruce Sterling is a really smart guy, this talk is dense, like watch it twice or three times dense. It presents a fascinating and rather dismal view of the future…
This talk set off an explosion of ideas in my head, I hope it will do the same for you.
This is a very compelling talk indeed. Wealth, I think, is a concept that a lot of people associate with materialism, but in fact it seems like we may be entering a period of time where wealth has more to do with your adaptability, intellectual flexibility, and level of participation in the present moment.
There are a lot of 20th century notions that are going to continue to be less and less practicable by people who actually want to accomplish things (instead of just putting all of one’s energy into hanging onto the notion of what your life used to, or should, be).
I’ll have to look at this video a few more times, also, but it sure seems like I picked the right time to start looking into Buddhist non-attachment.
thanks for putting this video up, it is really challenging and insightful, particularly the concept that buying and selling things is a means of communicating and supporting others, and the idea of putting things which we don’t need back into circulation