Created by Nicola Osborne for the Digital Culture module of the University of Edinburgh MSc in eLearning.
Utopia
Dystopia
v.
"We're always living way ahead of our thinking" - Marshall McLuhan
is about the unknown
hopes
fears
...about the unknown...
...the future...
?
... or the present ?
When does the future...
...become the present?
...start looking like the past?
Fear...
...is eventually lost in function...
what looks bizarre
quickly 
becomes 
normalised
Technology evolves fast...
...but our hopes and fears change little...
but we fear blind conformity
we fear the unknown...
.[almost as much as we fantasize about it]
we fear the unnatural
so we anthropomorphize...
and we find comfort in technology we feel we know & understand
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Play Again?
Yes/
No
and our behaviour
slowly changes to
meet the technology
Utopian and Dystopian 
futures are NOT 
about technology... 
...about not knowing how 
we will react or change 
when our ideas and fantasies 
become reality.
...our idea of the future is 
about our current
hopes and fears and...
we empathize
we idolize peaceful cooperation
Both are about our