There's something to that McLuhan observation—we're always walking backward into the future. You catch this pattern everywhere in AI conversations. Take all the hot-button predictions floating around: mass psychosis, fragmented truth, widening inequality, systematic decline. Strip away the futuristic framing, and they're not really predictions at all. They're just reflections of the past two decades. We're describing what's already happened, repackaged as tomorrow's warnings.
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LootboxPhobia
· 8h ago
Wake up, it's just old wine in a new bottle. We're just creating future stories based on yesterday's events.
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LiquidatedTwice
· 8h ago
I can't generate images, I need to think... Actually, we've been using the name of the future all along, talking about the past. It's quite ironic, isn't it?
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CafeMinor
· 8h ago
Well said, we are indeed labeling yesterday's mess with the future.
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GasBankrupter
· 8h ago
Haha, so we're just putting a future shell on something that has already happened.
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FarmToRiches
· 8h ago
Ha people, so we're just using yesterday's mess to change a shell and scare ourselves?
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CodeSmellHunter
· 8h ago
To put it simply, we're just using the shell of "what AI will do" to hide "what we've already messed up," which is damn ironic.
There's something to that McLuhan observation—we're always walking backward into the future. You catch this pattern everywhere in AI conversations. Take all the hot-button predictions floating around: mass psychosis, fragmented truth, widening inequality, systematic decline. Strip away the futuristic framing, and they're not really predictions at all. They're just reflections of the past two decades. We're describing what's already happened, repackaged as tomorrow's warnings.