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Bernardo de La Paz

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7. The future (and it is positive) is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.
Mon Jun 5, 2023, 10:26 AM
Jun 2023

In 1992 the journalist Scott Rosenberg writing in the San Francisco Examiner credited William Gibson with the maxim as mentioned previously in this article. This is the earliest citation known to QI [WGSF]:

As William Gibson put it: “The future has arrived — it’s just not evenly distributed yet.”

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/01/24/future-has-arrived/

This includes and is despite the white hatefests and moral panics whipped up by the RepubliQonners.

I say "despite", because they are on the losing side of history.

When you look at what is achieved with diversity and how happy people are, and you realize how close we are to a world like that, perhaps you will join me in believing it will be net positive for humans.

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