’dystopia’ is-in a sense-a term opposite of utopia. A future undesirable, but quite likely to happen.
1 / / THE HORIZON
Several years ago ‘digital architecture’ was perceived as a new opportunity, this new space as a window of redemption at the failure of the urban environment we live in today. The failure of the species. The new space was accompanied by fascinating possibilities but also new distractions now upon us with an air sick and dreary.
William Gibson, the founder of the genre ‘ cyber-punk ’said that in effect we have changed, technology, instant communication has changed us forever. But often escaped to see us with a picture of this, of what we were. We feel more comfortable looking at those old pictures. Because whether or not we recognize what we are today or not we want to see. [dystopia like]
2 / / THE AGGREGATION
desconectarles
In ‘release rate’, Paul Virilio noted the objective of this new urbanism Cyberspace: digitize all exchanges. The aggregation, generalization, massive inclusion of individuals in one place. Easy to control a society ( read, the planet ).
The greater the homogeneity of its standards, the greater the ease of control, compare, build relationships, identify dissidents, absent contrary, different opponents, locate them, isolate them in a friendly or eliminate them.
3 / / PRISONERS VOLUNTEERS
These days as migratory birds, the population-mostly-happily seems to be going naively to its new prison.
It’s a matter of waiting.Einstein said: “[...] there is a bomb even more dangerous than atomic destroying reality. Digital pump is not only destroyed, but rebuilt. “.
New in this network, favors the ephemeral, the distraction, the removal of the extraordinary, what the times demand. We live as in other times in history-the mutilation of already-weakened freedoms. It behooves us to keep up.
It is a future that does not desire.
But we all go thither.
Thither goes the planet.
thoughts by Juan Manuel Escalante
{more at his personal blog –> Dias Grises}
