January 2nds (On the Future)

1/2/2005

They’re razing the old Sun-Times building in the Loop, and when I pass by it I always tune into the sound of jackhammers echoing through the empty space. [Now site of Trump Tower]  

  

 

 

 

 

 

Ambient Audio:

 

1/2/2012

James Howard Kunstler’s prediction/forecast:

“Vlad Putin has held things together there impressively after the meltdown of the 1990s, but apparently the tranquil veneer is thin....The government, as ever, is a kind of gangster affair, only this time one that allows some people to get really rich, not just connected."

1/2/2023            
   
Was thinking of Neom, the dystopian city right out of a dystopian movie, and I feel like that it’s the pervasive mental model of what the future is supposed to look like. 

Reading the excellent book, Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (1998), about how Southern California had become the “set” for both utopia and dystopia, how William Gibson’s three-dimensional computer interfaces will someday allow “postmodern flaneurs” to stroll through urban cyberspace, which is what I’ve now experienced in real life.

1/2/2048

(Reset 2046) Ask Poe

To Gallery Moire to see exhibition space, tentative open April 17, title: “Equality of Vision”. 

Poe: Where are people living?