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A few pine for lost futures.


See Mark Fisher's Hauntology.


Those are retro futures.


Yeah, like the "60s version of the future", but not always.

You can feel nostalgia for novel, just invented, futures too (in the sense of feeling a loss for not being able to go there).


We were promised vacations on the Moon, space stations, and rocket belts. All that while keeping the simple life of the period.

What we got is a dystopian nightmare that could have been written by Charlie Stross (I know you lurk here) or William Gibson, except that the dialogues and plot are destitute of any interesting feature.


Nice try ;)




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