Discovered: Jan 7, 2023 20:50 The WELL: State of the World 2023: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky <— the pandemic triggered the next era. Shall we call it “Weirding (sadly mostly in a negative sense) for the rest of us” :-) ? –> QUOTE: Things have gotten really damned weird. The point here is that Bruce is right - the technolgically-enabled Modern Era is at least suffering under its own weight, if not collapsing. I think Cronenberg on Star Trek is a great metaphor - the Pandemic triggered the next era. Bruce is also right that there ain't a normal anymore (and what if we thought there was one, ok.)...This may seem like a scattershot of chaotic factoids that create a gestalt, and I hope you get that. It's a metaphor of the times.

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