Blissful devolution
our Rolling judgment day
pp. 327-349
in: Jim Norwine (ed), A world after climate change and culture-shift, Berlin, Springer, 2014Abstract
Let me sketch out here my vision of the cloistered cornucopia of AD 2100: Management of Planet Earth is entirely rationalized. Nature still nurtures. Artificial intelligence is history. The Machine has met its Master. The rich are enraptured. The poor are happy. The ducks of demography are all in a row. Never more is heard the discouraging word. Welcome to my sanguine vision of our future totalitarian utopia .