Cheap, clean power expands what can be built.
01 / Counter-proposal
UTOPIANISM
Not a prediction. A target.
A better future is not something we believe in. It is something we specify.
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02 / What becomes abundant?
THE FUTURE IS A DESIGN SPACE.
Expert cognitive assistance becomes widely available.
Machines absorb more dangerous and monotonous work.
One-to-one learning stops being inherently scarce.
More mechanisms can be proposed, simulated and tested.
The deepest dividend: more life that belongs to people.
03 / Same event, different operation
YES. AND THEN WHAT?
Threat frame
“Jobs disappear.”
Stop there and automation becomes a catastrophe.
REFRAME
Design frame
“Then survival must not depend on compulsory labour.”
The objection becomes a political and technical task.
04 / Interactive future builder
SPECIFY IT.
The sliders do not predict the future. They make the hidden design variables explicit.
69A plausible abundance transition
05 / Posters
MAKE THE TARGET VISIBLE.
06 / Imperative
SPECIFY THE FUTURE YOU ACTUALLY WANT.
Pessimism is not the opposite of utopia. Passivity is.
Miserabilism asks: what could go wrong? Utopianism asks: what could go right? Transductive Science asks: what would have to be true?