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A gemlog about the future; specifically, solarpunk, climate, and sustainability.
In our current capitalist legal system, designed to protect the rich and criminalize the poor, piracy is the "theft of intellectual property." This is done by copying. Literally just copying. It doesn't make the creator money, though, which is what matters the most to the capitalist class. And, better yet, you can only get it reliably enforced if you're rich enough to buy copyright protection or a patent (although laws about this vary worldwide).
The cities and towns of the future might end up going back to mostly trolley traffic, shared with bicycles and other forms of micromobility. This would not just be better for the people who live there, but it's overwhelmingly better for the environment. I expect BEVs will still be around, but they'll be mostly for ambulances, fire trucks, moving vans, construction vehicles, buses, and maybe taxis.
Recently, I wrote "Peace and Violence," a story set in a solarpunk future. Besides the themes that ended up in the story which I never planned on adding in, some intentional choices were made in it, particularly in how she interacts with her friends, the technology she uses, and the world she lives in.
2024-05-27 — Short Story: Peace and Violence
The following original short story contains sensitive topics, including sexual violence. Reader discretion is advised. Standard Futurism content will resume after this.
2024-05-25 — A State-Free Society
Solarpunk ideology, thanks to Solarpunk Grampy, gets me thinking about the political structures of their world. For example, there appears to be some structure in place to facilitate direct-democratic voting. But a lot of their ideology in their future revolves around the rejection of authority, replacing it with peer pressure and the collective will of the local community. While I still think that as long as there is a way for some man to gain power over another person, they're going to, assuming we figure out how to move past that, how would such a society operate?
2024-05-24 — Boundaries: Region names and political geography in a solarpunk future
I guess I'm no authority on solarpunk, but I'd like to take a swing at thinking about what we will or should call certain places. What should we do about currently contested regions? What about situations where multiple places have the same name? What will we call the future's equivalent of countries, states, provinces, cities, towns?
I was just reading the solarpunk Wikipedia page and I noticed it mentioned earthships, which I learned about in 7th grade science class: a house built out of recycled and natural materials which is self-sufficient. I then started reading that page too, and now I have some thoughts.
2024-05-18 — How solarpunk has affected me so far
Welcome to Futurism! I thought it would be nice to start Futurism, my solarpunk-themed gemlog, with a few thoughts about how the ideology of solarpunk has influenced my life and my thinking so far.
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