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Jonathan Meades: Remember The Future (1997).
The first documentary from his series Even Further Abroad, Meades asks about Britain and technological modernism and our national dread of awe. Big Tech was never going to fit into Little England he concludes, despite the postwar lurch towards the white heat of technology and a brief flirtation with architectural determinism. Instead "The shape of things to come is the shape of what's already been. We're invited to advance timorously into the past."
What's old is new again and Meades's arguments about Nineties Britain are back in play: data centres and high speed rail, wind farms and modular nuclear reactors - is it really us? Is our suspicion of technological utopia a hangup, or a well honed defence against the petty tyrannies of planned progress? Or is it just an argument over taste? One person's national heritage is another person's Victorian monstrosity etc. We're headed into the future regardless, why argue about the brickwork there.
Meades is acerbic as well as informed and thoughtful, and his documentaries should be Grade 2 listed: preserved for future generations to gawp at on school visits to the world of analogue television, where we thought 30 minutes of architecture on BBC2 before the snooker started was good for us.
Tonal Weaver retweeted
Jonathan Meades: Remember The Future (1997).
The first documentary from his series Even Further Abroad, Meades asks about Britain and technological modernism and our national dread of awe. Big Tech was never going to fit into Little England he concludes, despite the postwar lurch towards the white heat of technology and a brief flirtation with architectural determinism. Instead "The shape of things to come is the shape of what's already been. We're invited to advance timorously into the past."
What's old is new again and Meades's arguments about Nineties Britain are back in play: data centres and high speed rail, wind farms and modular nuclear reactors - is it really us? Is our suspicion of technological utopia a hangup, or a well honed defence against the petty tyrannies of planned progress? Or is it just an argument over taste? One person's national heritage is another person's Victorian monstrosity etc. We're headed into the future regardless, why argue about the brickwork there.
Meades is acerbic as well as informed and thoughtful, and his documentaries should be Grade 2 listed: preserved for future generations to gawp at on school visits to the world of analogue television, where we thought 30 minutes of architecture on BBC2 before the snooker started was good for us.
The call for the next round of album submissions has gone out and I only have dusty old works in progress. I haven't touched them in months.
Tonal Weaver retweeted
Britain shouldn't rejoin the EU as it is. It should rejoin the one that must come next for today’s world: a superpower built through radical reform that can compete with the likes of the US and China.
Read TBI's new paper, Beyond Leave and Remain: A Path to Rejoining a Reformed Europe: institute.global/insights/ge…
In a world shaped by power, Britain can't thrive alone. It needs to rejoin Europe - but not this Europe, and not this Britain.
Get our house in order, drop red lines, reform the EU, rejoin.
That belongs at the heart of the government's ten-year plan. Great to discuss on @BBCr4today 👇
I send my film to a new developer and they email me about a 10 business day turn around. Hopefully they don't scratch it like my normal camera shop.
Tonal Weaver retweeted
The age of AI demands a new model of govt, with a stronger centre driving technological transformation across the state.
Leaders can seize the opportunity to deliver a better future for their country if they meet this moment and make bold transformations.
I was on holiday earlier. Now that I'm back: thank you @karepack77 for the new profile picture. I have heard he is looking for an elf wife. He has saved many orphans from fires and he has donated 3 kidneys to those in need. Elves must marry him!