August 1923 marked the opening of the first great Bauhaus exhibition. ibid.
‘Nazis go into the building and throw furniture out the window. There’s talk of burning the building down.’ ibid. art lady
Transitioning from an inflationary world to a deflationary world – people should be scared. There is going to be disruption and that disruption is coming no matter what. There is nothing fundamental that governments can do to stop the rate of technology progress. Jeff Booth, author The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future, interview the Keiser Report, RT August 2020
You have technology moving at an exponential pace driving prices down, and governments all around the world [are] caught in an inflationary trap that they created themselves out of monetary policy, fighting that force. And I would ask a simple question – isn’t it good when the value of your money goes up, and prices go down? ibid.
The abundance of technology would be broadly distributed. ibid.
It’s not going to go on for ever no matter what … It doesn’t matter until it does. One giant thing they miss that this is they assume a reserve currency goes on for ever, right, and you can just keep printing and people just trust in your currency. ibid.
What if a country, let’s say China, created a currency and decided to keep on printing for ever, and they used the currency and they used it to buy the world? … Would we trust that currency? ibid.
And so you can see from that thought experiment that if you just keep on printing money, people lose faith in your currency, and so you don’t have a reserve currency any more. So there’s a whole bunch of people like I think are like brainwashed in this ‘debt doesn’t matter’, that this can go on for ever. And it’s going to happen gradually … There is nothing that can that stop this. We are going to have deflation for sure. Structurally, technology requires it. The path to get to deflation could end up through hyper-inflation first – currency default, debt default – it could happen a whole bunch of different ways but we are going to have deflation anyhow. ibid.
The concentration of wealth because you’re fighting a natural force – Capitalism can’t work, right, so effectively the Government is the market today. Free market principles don’t work any more. ibid.
Deflation we’ve never seen in our lifetimes. What if next year everything around you got cheaper? All it does is increase the value of your savings, and decrease the value of your assets. ibid.
Why do you think the top five technology companies are at historic heights? ibid.
Everybody knows it. ibid.
More band-aids on a systematic, a structural change that has to take place. And so what they’re really trying to stop is a revolution, right, but they’re making the revolution more likely. ibid.
But when the scientists did this, the computers began to reveal something they hadn’t expected. One tiny change in their equations could have massive catastrophic consequences which they could never have predicted: it was called Chaos Theory. Chaos Theory had a very powerful influence in the West because it rose up at the very moment the Soviet Union was collapsing. And it seemed to explain why all attempts at revolution had led to disaster: the world was just too complex for human beings to change in a predictable way. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head VI Are We a Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer? ***** BBC 2021
No McFly ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley. Back to the Future I 1985 starring Michael J Fox & Christopher Lloyd & Lea Thompson & Crispin Glover & Thomas F Wilson & James Tolkan & Donald Fullilove & Claudia Wells & Harry Waters junior et al, director Robert Zemeckis, teacher
Doc: Tell me, Future Boy, who’s President of the United States in 1985?
Marty: Ronald Reagan.
Doc: Ronald Reagan? The actor? [rolls eyes] Ha! Then who’s vice-president, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady? ibid.
Marty: What about all that talk about screwing up future events? The space-time continuum?
Doc: Well, I figured, what the hell? ibid.
Jennifer, I don’t know how to tell you this but we created a time machine. Back to the Future II 1989 starring Michael J Fox & Christopher Lloyd & Lea Thompson & Thomas F Wilson & James Tolkan & Jeffrey Weissman & Elisabeth Shue & Billy Zane & Charles Fleischer et al, director Robert Zemeckis, Marty
They’ve abolished all lawyers. ibid. Doc
Maybe we could place a couple of bets. ibid. Marty
The other great mystery of the universe – women. ibid. Doc
Doc, what is wrong with my future? Back to the Future III 1990 starring Michael J Fox & Christopher Lloyd & Mary Steenburgen & Thomas F Wilson & Lea Thompson & James Tolkan & Elisabeth Shue & Jeffrey Weissman et al, director Robert Zemeckis, Marty
All right, I’m from the future. I came here in a time machine that I invented. ibid. Doc to bird
It means your future hasn’t been written yet. No-one’s has. Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one. Both of you. ibid. Doc
Hi. Welcome to the future: San Dimas, California – 2688. And I’m telling you, it’s great here. The air is clean. The water is clean. Even the dirt is clean! Bowling averages are way up. Mini-golf scores are way down. And we have more excellent waterslides than any other planet we communicate with. I’m telling you, this place is great! But it almost wasn’t. You see, 700 years ago, the Two Great Ones ran into a few problems. So now I have to travel back in time to help them out. If I should fail to keep these two along the correct path, the basis of our society will be endangered. Ah, but don’t worry: it’ll all make sense. I’m a professional. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure 1989 starring Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter & George Carlin & Terry Camilleri & Dan Shor & Tony Steedman & Rod Loomis & Al Leong & Jane Wiedlin & Robert V Barron & Clifford David et al, director Stephen Herek, opening commentary
What are the men thinking about? Don’t tell me that they’re trying to safeguard the future because they got none whatever way it goes. And they may as do what’s right. Alan Bleasdale, Boys from the Black Stuff: George’s Last Ride ***** George to sons, BBC 1982
What inspires you and what makes you excited about the future? Elon Musk: Superhero or Supervillain? Musk, Channel 4 2022