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Modernism’s heyday was 1914-1945 — you don’t need to be a history buff to clock those two dates — and its track record was — well, a bit underwhelming: one machine age, two hot world wars, a cold one, two political ideologies that murdered a hundred million people between them, and if that wasn’t enough, an enormous, decade-long recession as well. | Modernism’s heyday was 1914-1945 — you don’t need to be a history buff to clock those two dates — and its track record was — well, a bit underwhelming: one machine age, two hot world wars, a cold one, two political ideologies that murdered a hundred million people between them, and if that wasn’t enough, an enormous, decade-long recession as well. | ||
So you would like to think that Modernism has had its day, but no. After the second world war there was a period of [[high-modernism]] — outside the Communist states, not so murderous, but repressive all the same — and even when that waned in the 1980s, the promise of the [[information revolution]] ushered in a new wave. Perhaps our computational machines weren’t powerful enough! Perhaps ''now'' we can solve all the worlds problem’s with data. And so it has transpired: over the last thirty years there has been an [[information revolution]], a (re)birth of ''digital'' modernism | So you would like to think that Modernism has had its day, but no. After the second world war there was a period of [[high-modernism]] — outside the Communist states, not so murderous, but repressive all the same — and even when that waned in the 1980s, the promise of the [[information revolution]] ushered in a new wave. Perhaps our computational machines weren’t powerful enough! Perhaps ''now'' we can solve all the worlds problem’s with data. And so it has transpired: over the last thirty years there has been an [[information revolution]], a (re)birth of ''digital'' modernism. | ||
In Web 1.0 you could buy books online. | |||
Modernism is profoundly [[determinist]], [[rationalist]], assumes the world is therefore a static place which even the hardest problems can be solved — that machines can be built that can divine the answers to questions our mortal minds cannot handle, and in that sense is in equal parts utopian, delusional and ''lazy'': it believes that difficult stuff can all be solved without upsetting the dynamics of the system, and once solved we will all live happily ever after. | In Web 2.0 you could complain about the books you bought online. | ||
In Web 3.0 you could like it when other people complained about the books they bought online. | |||
In Web 4.0: [[LinkedIn]]’s [[chatbot]]s do it all for you, and wish you a “happy work-i-versary!”. | |||
Welcome to 2021: every gormless teen on the planet’s face carries enough processing power to land a rocket on the moon, and yet here we still are. | |||
Modernism is profoundly [[determinist]], [[rationalist]], assumes the world is therefore a static place which even the hardest problems can be solved — that machines can be built that can divine the answers to questions our (gormless) mortal minds cannot handle, and in that sense is in equal parts utopian, delusional and ''lazy'': it believes that difficult stuff can all be solved without upsetting the dynamics of the system, and once solved we will all live happily ever after. | |||
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