05: The Best is Yet to Come
The Paradox of Growing Up
by MARLA CABANBAN DISCUSSED: buckling down, quarter life crisis, purpose, and the kids I’m going to have You came to the following conclusions: 1) You are a kid, and 2) You have to start growing up if you want to remain a kid. Both statements contradict each other, but they do make so much sense [...]
I Will Write About the Possibility of Us Everywhere
Instead of a futuristic, bleep-bloop-y selection of songs, here’s a mix that’s tangentially related to the idea of possibilities, which is tangentially related to the idea of The Future. It began with The National’s “Slow Show,” mostly because of this fantastic line: You know I’ve dreamt about you, for 29 years, before I met you. [...]
So What’s Next?: A Soundtrack for Things Yet to Come
In the here and now, we bemoan the failed promise of keeping up with the Jetsons, even as we busy ourselves with content-on-demand, and real-time newsfeeds packed with blips and tweets. Our present day feels like a bland caricature of the future envisioned by the generations just before us. Our hyper-globalized world, with its post-Fordist [...]
Apocalypse Later
By JUAN MIGUEL SEVILLA DISCUSSED: Obsessions with Dystopia, The End, The Worst is Yet to Come Our time is up. The utopian view of the future has given way to dystopia. Chaos reigns tomorrow and we have front seats to civilization’s demise. We’ve stopped dreaming of utopia. We no longer foresee the future as the [...]
The Future of Synth is in Your Hands
“It’s not what you have but how you use what you have” Pharrell Williams, all-around coolness icon, said. Any Neptunes fan can tell if it’s a Neptunes track, just by hearing the group’s signature synthesizers. The duo is just one of many popular acts rediscovering synth, a musical staple since the ‘60s. The music of [...]
2020: Yet Another Grim Dating Year
Words by DAVID LOUGHRAN Illustrations by PAULINA ORTEGA DISCUSSED: Why gays who stereotype are usually single, A discouraging decade In 2020 I will be, gasp…33 years old. At age 33 I will no longer be deemed cute (let’s be hypothetical and pretend I am now), and so I will have to triple efforts at dating. [...]
Be Nothing Short of Amazing Today: An Election Mix
Also Known as the “I Hope You Know Who to Vote for Mix,” the “No Votes are Wasted Votes Mix” the “Please Don’t Fuck This Up Mix,” the “You Will Always Be More Powerful Than a Motherfucking Survey Mix”, the “That So Many People Care Now Gives Us Hope Mix”, the “Change Has to Start [...]
A Letter to Future Spawn
By MARGUERITE ALCAZAREN DE LEON DISCUSSED: Future-Children, Maybe-Fathers, and Your Dreams April 30, 2010 Dear Future Spawn, This is your mother. I hope that you’re reading this no earlier than 2025, because I have no plans of having you in the next few years. I am not yet rich, and only rich people can have [...]
2015: The Year I Ride a Hoverboard
By CARLJOE JAVIER DISCUSSED: Lightsabers, Auto-fit clothing, Hoverboards, parachuting to land out of flying jeepneys In the How I Met Your Mother episode “The Fight,” Jason Segel’s character, Marshall Eriksen, insists that lightsaber technology is under development and that soon enough he will be carving a turkey using one. And in characteristic HIMYM fashion the [...]
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