"Mainstream Americans, where they were once called to dream and to believe that their best days as a community still lay ahead, are now at war with the future." [...] "In the relatively narrow field of my interests - ambient informatics, the networked city - can be seen something profound writ small: among fully-developed nations, the US stands out as having generally rejected "futuristic" interventions in everyday urban life, to the point that what I'm bound to present as innovative to US audiences is almost laughably banal elsewhere."And don't miss out on the passage where he argues why Sarah Palin is "future shock personified". Read the essay (alternative site)
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