this video-tech is soooo inspiring,


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f09VdXex3A

The Future Of Possible - Drones

The Future Of Possible is a commercial slogan of a DJI company - a market leader in easy-to-fly drones and aerial photography systems. Of all the possibilities today drones still serve one of the main roles as a support for aerial photography and video recording. DJI is one of many companies offering drone capturing of moments in life.

Photography as a medium for capturing can reproduce almost any event, but can never be life itself. “What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.” (Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography) and later Barthes state that photography “becomes a bizarre medium, a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time.” What is an important question to Barthes is how archiving of (present) time has other (multiple) meanings: besides the historic advantage of archive also a big spectre of false meanings which shifts potentiality that image holds in itself. Photography as a medium of (mass) communication is the key feature of modern culture (as well for Benjamin and Sontag).

We can describe drones of today as photography was for Barthes and Benjamin at the beginning of the previous century - a new revolution which just might have a big impact on modern culture. As available product for the mass use drones is toys for grown up's

and from this inventions can have a big impact on remote locations:
- as rescuing

or

- as new meanings of transport

- as new logistics

As from above youtube video, it is not scepticism that raises questions either Amazon air prime will be a successful story or not, but it opens questions that drones will change our everyday lives and create new rules - from security (not to invade people's privacy, not to invade privacy of property)

all way to the rules of behaving in public space (as traffic rules)

If drones innovation increases growth is not stopped by fear of invading privacy and lack of determination of making new rules of behaving in vast sky public space we can expect drones instead of cranes building skyscrapers, cutting peak of trees or rescuing cats from branches etc.

Drone innovations might bring us options of drone usage as well as all technology gadgets drones as the new form of social or class hierarchy.
Interesting is what drones might be as an art form. It can be simple graffiti gadget:

or theatre performance

Maybe drones might carve big David from marble with chisels or they can in the field of architecture hover in the air as tactile building surface or they can act as one big organism similar to Fuller's cloud structures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_(tensegrity_sphere).

And of course we must not forget the transport of taxidermized animals ;)
http://makezine.com/2015/03/31/4-taxidermy-drones-yes-thats-thing/

pokemon go modernism constant babylon

Quote from Srečko Horvat`s article:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/25/pokemon-go-silicon-valley-reality

"The problem is not technology or innovation, the problem is monopoly capitalism: the fact that all this power is concentrated in a few companies from Silicon Valley, who openly want to create a brave new world in which technology only serves profit. While we’re all busy playing Pokémon, the companies are following the game’s advice – “Gotta catch ‘em all”. Only, its us being captured in an inescapable web of technological consumerism."

At this point I recall a work by Constant called New Babylon. Which was a utopia project. As I understand the idea was to enable the people leisure activities in a new city as machines are doing all the work. A kind of city - amusement park.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Babylon_(Constant_Nieuwenhuys)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkmk8Xdz9Ps

Now this can only partly become true, as the modernistic ideal (machines doing all the unqualified work) failed... but now with Pokemon GO, paradoxically, all places became potential amusement parks.

http://nostalgiaforthefutures.blogspot.rs/2012/12/to-control-and-shape-entire-social.html

For a start

Future state of being is a blog for creative ideas what might be from today's view something in the future: from technological innovations, artistic ideas to philosophical questions about life in future.

Name of a blog came just as all others were already taken. It just might well be The brave new world but someone already use this, etc.

This is a collaborative blog of different artists.