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@srijit

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Since we had neoliberalism slapped down on us, starting in the 1970s, we’ve seen a declining rate of technological advancement, and especially in those areas that might have promised liberation from drudgery. David Graeber famously asked “what happened to the flying cars we were promised?” A lot of effort has been poured into technologies of monitoring, control, and financialization, but very little into the gee-wiz stuff we were promised for decades as our due.

We got very good at special effects; we can very readily conjure the *illusion* of a more advanced future. We just don’t actually deliver on it.