Here's my latest #CSPresents talk for Creative Social, on atemporality, time loops and lack of future. Read it anytime you like, doesn't matter.

1. Skeuomorphism.
Creative Social 12/12
@sandoz

2. Skeuomorphism.
Only joking.

3. “if you want my future, forget my past.”
Melanie Chisholm

4. We’re going to prove this theory wrong.
“if you want my future, forget my past.”
Melanie Chisholm

5. To be progressive, to be futuristic... More scientific
knowledge, more tools, make more jobs, master nature, get
more power, cheaper power, struggle for a better life for your
children, health, prosperity, material security, shelter, bigger,
faster, stronger, knowing more.
Everyone knows that's progress. That's not what we're gonna
get. No money, scarcity, financial collapse, collapsed states,
general precarity, energy crisis, low intensity global warfare,
rapid advancing climate crisis.
That's the situation on the ground. People ask where did the
future go? The glamourous versions. We're deliberately
choosing to move away from that and into a non C20 space.
We're moving into a situation with GenX in power and a
depression. A depression where people are afraid of the sky.
That's what the next decade actually looks like, and, you’re
gonna live there.
Bruce Sterling

6. So, this talk is actually about
Atemporality.
2012, the year the future got old.

7. looking into the past flickr group
by jasonepowell

8. OLD
The Future is Old.

9. 8110this is how old it is!
Mobiles are Carbon Dating for Media.

10. the future is so old we’re remaking it.

11. Re-wearing it.
I wore these trendy Vandals ever day... about 25 yrs ago

12. Re-using it.
80s
70s
Chas & Dave. Timetravellers.
99

13. Re-living it.
Jake Bugg (now), Ian Brown (80s), Keith Richards (60s)

14. Reversing it.
Aubrey De Grey. A youngish man (49), trying
to look like an old man, who looks young.

15. Re-shooting it.
Young Me, Now Me. Ze Frank.

16. Re-jumping it.
1960 - - - - - - - - - - - > 2012

17. atemporality is everywhere (somewhat appropriately)

18. If you could have a talk with your younger self,
what would you say?

19. The original...

20. The poor imitation...

21. it’s getting older, as it gets newer.

22. So what?

23. 2013
If you want to know what the Future looks like,
look at the Past.
Have a great 2013 or 2011, 1911 or whatever.
Thanks for listening.
@sandoz