How Can Anyone Object to ‘15 Minute Cities’? (www.currentaffairs.org)

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We live in an age when the most unobjectionable and necessary ideas for progress can give rise to paranoia and fear. If the most innocuous, unoriginal possible idea can fuel paranoia, how can we hope to have a sensible discussion about the future of our places?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

When I was a kid, the future was supposed to be awesome and full of amazing technologies and solutions to all our present-day problems. Now I feel like these right-wingers have taken that all away, and now the future is, yeah, dystopian. I'm glad I don't have any children…

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But the present is full of amazing technologies: we have smartphones, and we have Facebook, and Wikipedia, and mass state surveillance, and toy quadcopters dropping bomblets... ok, so maybe all of that creates problems at the same pace as it solves others... but the tech is amazing!

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