#futurehistory — Public Fediverse posts

"And, all because of an autocorrect mistake, butter and yam on toast became a thing."

#Microfiction #FutureHistory

@stefan Remember that time when the US built all those data centers for AI and then realized that LLMs didn’t work after all?

#llm #futurehistory #ai #repeatinghistory #collapse

#doctorwho #USpol #futureHistory

The Great Enscrapening: a period in history when AI hoovered up everything it could find. Various authorities place its end date around the mid- to late-2020s depending on how much AI generated content was mixed into the material. It was followed by the Missing Century when AI-generated content swamped everything else making original content difficult to find until the Post-Post-Modern Internet arose from isolated communities connecting based on real human relationships.

#futurehistory

https://daisybrain.medium.com/water-dogs-available-for-preorder-694db9495c91

#novel #specfiction #sciencefiction #youngadult #fantasy #punkrock #Ramones #midwest #indiana #timetravel #spacetravel #futurehistory

#reading #octaviabutler #ChapterTwo #politics #society #social
#FutureHistory
Book of the day:
Re-reading "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler, which focuses on 2025 and the decent into chaos in the cities and violence on the streets.
As I begin ch 2 I read "Books of the living, jul 21, 2024.
Starts off talking about how she was affected by religion.
Seems oddly appropriate in view of current events.

The #future-#history we want, and the #futurehistory we deserve

https://onlys.ky/the-future-history-that-we-want-and-the-future-history-we-deserve

Is it any wonder that we’re lousy at imagining any #futures but complete #apocalypse or vague #utopia?

As humanity pushed on into the 21st century, our problems increasing became not about what we know but what people collectively found convenient to believe.

#futurehistory #social #poetry #humanity

Eat dirt, users of #facebook and #twitter. Historian Jill Lepore of Harvard fame is not on Facebook or Twitter and says: “I think the social networks will be looked on as having been fairly catastrophic.” #histodons #JillLepore #FutureMediaHistory #MediaHistory #Historiography #FutureHistory

"Oxygen was banned in 2040 due to media reports that it was being widely used by immigrants."

#FutureHistory

@madelineostrander Historians mark the start of the global climate wars with implementation of this old idea.

Oh damn, did I really write that? Hope I didn’t screw my timeline. #futurehistory

Spoilers for Picard season 3.
More in here than I had heard previously anyway.

If I was writing the headline:

#StarTrek #Picard S3 beams Enterprise-F from the #StarTrekOnline #VideoGame to onscreen canon.

But damnit, I'm a #Nerd not a copy editor.

#LLAP #Trek #1701F #FutureHistory

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-trek-picard-season-3-enterprise-f/

Since Nathan isn’t over here yet, wanted to share this excellent tweet. #FutureHistory https://twitter.com/goldwagnathan/status/1605332931442257921?s=46&t=1sfAjm9JY01IttsmGDd0xA