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https://doctorow.medium.com/one-weird-trick-to-make-monopolies-self-destruct-c4892b74b0d9>
"Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2020 novel
Ministry For the Future was a
groundbreaking work: it’s the tale of a detailed, plausible transition from a
world on a collision course with civilization-ending climate catastrophe to one
where the challenge is met, with humanity collectively deciding to save itself:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/03/ministry-for-the-future/#ksr
Robinson’s book is important: it not only disproves the (variously attributed)
capitalist realism aphorism that “it is easier to imagine the end of the world
than it is to imagine the end of capitalism” — it also imagines the means by
which that ending was brought about.
It’s a tale of what I’ve called “The Swerve”: the day we stop listening to the
first class passengers at the front of the bus that’s barreling towards a
cliff, rush the driver and yank the wheel before we go over the edge:
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https://locusmag.com/2022/07/cory-doctorow-the-swerve/>"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
