Speculations
on the shape
of what comes next.
Personal writings on technology, society and the long now. Written from London, 1997.
Personal writings on technology, society and the long now. Written from London, 1997.
Every surface will soon carry a processor. The question is no longer whether we will live inside the network, but whether the network will remember us kindly.
Despite the promises of remote work and telepresence, dense human proximity remains the most efficient engine of innovation. The metropolis is not obsolete; it is merely reconfiguring.
As personal records migrate from paper to silicon, we must decide what deserves to be preserved and what we are willing to let slip into deliberate oblivion.
Liora Kane has spent the last eighteen years tracing the intersection of emerging technologies and human behaviour. Her work appears in journals of futures studies, occasional radio broadcasts, and this private notebook. She believes the future is not a destination but a series of choices made in the present.