Same Old — Real Life

What is the point of imagining new technologies without new ways of living?

Same Old What is the point of imagining new technologies without new ways of living? Sun-Ha Hong November 29, 2021 share Image: France in 2000 year (XXI century) — Electric scrubbing (1899) by Jean-Marc Côté . http://reallifemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Same-Old.mp3 Full-text audio version of this essay. The tagline was clear: “George Jetson heads a family of the future in a way of life very much like our own!” Premiering in 1962, the American cartoon The Jetsons showcased a glistening technofuture set in the year 2062. George Jetson, working man, enjoys the leisure of a largely automate

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