A good complement to my Biopunk essay:

The upshot of all of this is that the Future gets divided; the cute, insulated future that Joi Ito and Cory Doctorow and you and I inhabit, and the grim meathook future that most of the world is facing, in which they watch their squats and under-developed fields get turned into a giant game of Counterstrike between crazy faith-ridden jihadist motherfuckers and crazy faith-ridden American redneck motherfuckers, each doing their best to turn the entire world into one type of fascist nightmare or another.

Zenarchery.

Related posts (autogenerated):

1. Vultures face extinction as gamblers seek visions of the future
2. Future Shock documentary narrated by Orson Welles
3. Wanted to buy – Meda: a Tale of the Future and L’Utopie et le roman utopique dan la litterature anglaise
4. Squatter cities as the cities of the future – TED talk by Robert Neuwirth