The aff’s advocation for futurism is a fantasy that poisons the way we work towards the future --- reject any advocation of futurism as irresponsible and epistemically suspect.
Case 19 (Design advocate, founder of the Calm Technology Institute, speaker and author of Calm Technology. Former Research Fellow at MIT Media Lab and Harvard BKC, “No More Shiny Tomorrows: Futurism Needs to Get Real”, 3/18/2019, Acc 7/17/2024, https://caseorganic.medium.com/no-more-shiny-tomorrows-futurism-needs-to-get-real-5ecb3e2fa0c9) 顏
No matter the setting, shiny futurist scenarios are often the same: Perfect people in perfect settings, using tech that never fails. The world seemingly becomes more perfect with the addition of expensive, battery-intensive, and visually complex technology. While these fantasies might seem benign, I believe their narratives are corroding the way we develop the future by distorting our perceptions of how we think the future will actually be implemented.