{"id":24459,"date":"2012-01-02T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kateoplis-william-gibson-the-future-now-what\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:14:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:14:23","slug":"kateoplis-william-gibson-the-future-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kateoplis-william-gibson-the-future-now-what\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24459 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kateoplis-william-gibson-the-future-now-what\/attachment\/24460\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lx54kbfwSb1qzprlbo1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/kateoplis.tumblr.com\/post\/15144248483\/william-gibson-the-future-now-what-is-the\">kateoplis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowness.com\/day\/2012\/1\/1\/1787\/william-gibson-the-future-now\"><strong>William Gibson: The Future Now<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>What is the future to you?<\/strong><br \/>Tomorrow. Literally. The present is a very short interval, today. I don\u2019t feel we live in an era. An era\u2019s supposed to be a long period of the same sort of thing. I don\u2019t think we\u2019re having that, unless you want to crank the perspective way back and say, \u201cOkay, this is what happened to us because we invented the internal combustion engine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>What one thing would you love to know about the future?<\/strong><br \/>What they think of us. How they see us. The Victorians\u2019 self-image was nothing at all like the way we now see them. How we see them now would have absolutely mortified them, I imagine. I think it may be rather the same when the future looks at us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it still possible to find genuine novelty out there?<\/strong><br \/>As our brief present gets ever more widely distributed, it gets harder to find uncurated novelty. A great deal of what happens on the internet can be described as curation of novelty. Bohemias were, famously, backwaters. Wherein grew the cutting edge. It is very hard to have a backwater these days. Yesterday I was looking at photos of \u201cCholombians\u201d\u2013\u2013a Mexican-style subculture, whose members are half emo, half hair sculpture, and like to mix plaids. I had never seen or heard of them before, and that\u2019s so rare now. Perhaps the new bohemias are largely conceptual. Easier to keep the secret.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you optimistic about what lies ahead?<\/strong><br \/>I\u2019m not nearly as ragingly pessimistic as I sometimes think various situations would seem to call for. Every generation seems to hit the \u201cafter us, the deluge\u201d phase, and you can read about the Greeks doing it thousands of years ago. That alone is enough to cause me to suspect these are not really the end times.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kateoplis: William Gibson: The Future Now What is the future to you?Tomorrow. Literally. The present is a very short interval, today. I don\u2019t feel we live in an era. An era\u2019s supposed to be a long period of the same sort of thing. I don\u2019t think we\u2019re having that, unless you want to crank the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6mv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24461,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24459\/revisions\/24461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}