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Niki Tonsky

Hate to say it, but I’m getting tired of retro-futurism. What it basically says is “we had better dreams in the 70s than now”.

But people in the 70s were not trying to escape into the past. They were trying to imagine what’s next for them, in the moment.

So I want the same for today. I want something to dream about, something I can get behind, I want to imagine future from today. I don’t want this “past had better hopes” crap. What’s next now, today?

Still from Outer Worlds 2 announcement trailer
Still from Intergalactic announcement trailer
14 December at 11:17 | Open on mastodon.online
6 comments
Christian Tietze

@nikitonsky yeah, it doesn't bode well if there's no dreams for the future but replicating those of the past

14 December at 11:30 | Open on mastodon.social
Vladimir

@nikitonsky well, Outer Worlds seems like the most probable future for us if nothing changes. Except the retro aesthetic

14 December at 11:41 | Open on techhub.social
PointlessOne :loading:

@nikitonsky I think this is not an issue with dreams. We have plenty of those. It's just that they're a bit hard to make cool on screen. Can you make a proper AGI look cool? Can you make teleportation look cool *and* new when we had it on screen for 60 years now? Can you make a direct neural interface look cool?

Go read some recent (and not so much) sci-fi books. You'll find a lot of interesting tech and commentary in there. But you probably won't find much that is flashy, new, and would look really cool on screen, all at the same time.

@nikitonsky I think this is not an issue with dreams. We have plenty of those. It's just that they're a bit hard to make cool on screen. Can you make a proper AGI look cool? Can you make teleportation look cool *and* new when we had it on screen for 60 years now? Can you make a direct neural interface look cool?

14 December at 14:13 | Open on status.pointless.one
Beady Belle Fanchannel

@nikitonsky I believe that's Outer WORlds 2 not Outer Wilds

14 December at 17:07 | Open on mastodon.xyz
Alexander Ilyin

@nikitonsky My theory is that retro-futurism serves to alleviate taste buds being overfed with modern noisy design. Basically, Dieter Rams that is more humane than sterile, to the public eye, today. Sony isn't there by accident either, it seems to me.

Which doesn't invalidate your point, of course.

14 December at 20:02 | Open on merveilles.town
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