When someone reaches for the prefix “post” to describe the evolutionary future of X it means they are having trouble seeing how emerging technologies might transform the *mechanisms* of X but have more clarity on the content.
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The evolution of the message is clearer than that of the medium. For example, if you sense the contradictions of capitalism and content of resolution (eg more complete accounting of social cost externalities) but not the future of “money” you will reach for “postcapitalism”.
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If you see contradictions of liberal democracy and content of resolution (more formal political integration of forces of globalization and corporate personhood) and but not the future of “voting”, you’ll reach for “post-Westphalian nation state”
