{"id":14072,"date":"2015-01-01T10:43:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T07:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=14072"},"modified":"2015-01-01T10:43:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T07:43:33","slug":"stories-and-visions-for-a-better-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2015\/01\/01\/stories-and-visions-for-a-better-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories and Visions for a Better Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want some antidotes to Lovecraftian pessimism and cosmic doom, for the gloomy start to the New Year?  Neal Stephenson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hieroglyph.asu.edu\/\">Project Hieroglyph<\/a> aims to counteract the descent of science-fiction writing into butt-clenching angst, dreary visions of the gloom-pocalypse, and general middle-aged grumpiness. Hieroglyph&#8217;s main dose of practical optimism is their acclaimed new SF story anthology <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062204696\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0062204696&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=dlog-20&amp;linkId=5KXCCEEUJDDZRKCV\">Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=dlog-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0062204696\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0!important;\" \/><\/em> (paperback and audio-book). Probably best read in combination with Matt Ridley&#8217;s excellent non-fiction <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061452068\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0061452068&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=dlog-20&amp;linkId=BZ3GIEK5KZJ7ENCV\">The Rational Optimist<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=dlog-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0061452068\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0!important;\" \/><\/em> (there&#8217;s a good potted version of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/download.fora.tv\/rss_media\/Long_Now_Podcasts\/podcast-2011-03-22-ridley.mp3\">as a free audio lecture<\/a> and a more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4v86K5awl_s\">recent follow-on lecture<\/a>).  Also the more USA-oriented mass-market primer <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/145161683X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=145161683X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=dlog-20&amp;linkId=4IR4Y7KUZ46LU754\">Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=dlog-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=145161683X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0!important;\" \/><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want some antidotes to Lovecraftian pessimism and cosmic doom, for the gloomy start to the New Year? Neal Stephenson&#8217;s Project &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2015\/01\/01\/stories-and-visions-for-a-better-future\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unnamable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}