What does the future look like?
I was doing an image search to see what was posted by folks of the hue. I used all of the hue denotations and the sci-fi buzz word combos.
Most of the sci-fi pics of hue people were bodies, faces, costume, accessories and hardware. Lots of hardware for fighting, blades, guns, spears. Lots of projected power emanating from heads, hands and belly-buttons. LOL!
Not many ships, not many space stations, not many planet settlements and lots living among the ruins of fallen urban america instead of a built by us city or village. Afro-futurism is not strong enough as a cultural form.
In the pictures what I didn't see is architecture, buildings, rooms. I know we are inspired by say the African Savannah or the edge of the jungle or pictures of tribal villages or at least some traditional building and the stories within them. What about an upgrade. A mega structure which seems to float above the ground, people going about it's base like ants, far off the ruins of tradition, close up new traditions. The structure is the hardware of technology and necessity, be it a house, civic building or a mega city. Viaducts for travel, water management are.... think about it the expanse of Africa and being able to transform a difficult terrain into mega cities. How about up the Mississippi or the Ohio River in America.
Hue people have got to put the ability to transform land into a civilization sustainment into the stories and images. Our supposed history has been one of building for someone else, what if we build for ourselves. Now that is speculative. That story rewrites the script we have been programmed to follow for 2K years. We need to break the mental confines we have been taught. If you imagine it, put it into the flow of our collective conscience, the kinks are worked out, it soon becomes able to be put it into physical consideration and possibility. That is Sci-fi that has done a good job for us.
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