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Dad / husband / thoroughly inadequate cat servant. Historian of Canadian immigration; public & oral history too. Museum worker, public servant, bike commuter. (he/him)

Chair of CHA's Public History working group.

Author, with Jan Raska, of Pier 21: A History (University of Ottawa Press, 2020).

PhD student (History) @ Carleton

Header: Johnston and Ripmeester, "A Monument's Work Is Never Done," Intl J. of Heritage Studies 13:2 (2007), 125

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I think a lot of time when the Torment Nexus thing is brought up, people are getting the arrow of causality the wrong way around. It's not that necessarily that Bobby Techbro read "Don't Create the Torment Nexus" and was inspired to make one, even if that's what the marketing tries to sell it as.

No I think that's not giving scifi authors the proper respect as futurists. They looked at how things were going and thought "man, this might lead to a Torment Nexus" and then wrote a story about that.

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Favourite example of author-as-uncanny-futurist:

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_11_15/

notjustbikes , an Random Englisch
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[surprised pikachu meme]

https://thedriven.io/2024/05/14/nearly-all-major-car-companies-are-sabotaging-ev-transition-and-japan-is-worst-study-finds/

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"...all of this will ultimately suck for cities where we need fewer cars, not different cars."

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