Educational Futurism and the Utopian Scholastic Aesthetic | nostalgia for the future

[@thebaccathatchews]

I love this aesthetic. It made you think the world was vibrant and interesting.

[@NewWaveArch90]

Great video! Just a note that the utopian scholastic fb group that the research and name came from were a part of CARI, before it was an official, structured organization -- interestingly it was a spin off group from the Global Village Coffeehouse fb group

[@RemnantCult]

I loved how education was seen as exciting then. I didn't know it then, but I realize that the excitement for how fun it is to learn and the optimism for the future really helped turn me into a model student. The multimedia experiences I had in computer lab and at home is what got me eventually in a career in IT. I am praying for and working towards bringing that optimism back somehow. Our kids today deserve it.

[@malaquiasalfaro81]

I grew up in the Silicon Valley where a lot of this stuff was designed and you could feel it in the air. Even now, California allows your Drivers Licencse on your smartphone. It was so cool to be surrounded by the technological optimism and atmosphere that encouraged curiosity. Wish I could travel back in time sometimes 😢

[@cageliner]

That was well after my school years. We were still using oil fired typewriters LOL I and a schoolmate used to record events on reel to reel B/W video tape. I was 40 when Windows 95 and Encarta were released.

[@Digital_Piss]

There was something so dazzling about that new technology that was introduced into the classroom when you were a child in the early & mid 90s. Interactive Educational Laserdiscs were jaw dropping back then (literally going from film reel projectors and literal slideshows), the entire ritual of it too was so exciting. 💿

[@Qce-i6d]

I still remember being taught by a Teacher Assistant in kindergarten how to properly handle a CD and put it onto the disc drive. I still remember that little skill, and will probably teach it to children of my own someday.

[@MonsterKidCory]

Oh man this takes me back... I was in high school through the early 90's, graduated 1995. I remember all of this. The whizz-bang of CD-ROM complete with Quicktime videos ("Wow, an interactive CD-ROM!" - Lex, Jurassic Park). And actually, that quote wasn't facetious... There was, for me, very much an overlap between this aesthetic and the aesthetic adopted by palaeontology via Jurassic Park. Museums with skeletons surrounding INTERACTIVE CD-ROMS! 🤩 playing animated clips from the PBS Dinosaurs documentary, all with a kind of ersatz mid-range Hawaiian resort aesthetic. But it wasn't all blue sky and heads exploding with 480p dinosaurs and pizzas and Michelangelo's David... Once my school got the Internet, I bogarted it for many a lunchhour and hit the Usegroups, where I first learned about Goth. The 90's were also the hacker aesthetic, The Matrix, The Crow, and Industrial Cybergoth and Darkwave Gothic.

[@garrettblack]

That Utopian Scholastic group was the best thing to come out of facebook 😂

[@Robalini1]

I don't know how I first stumbled onto your channels years ago, but I sure am glad I did. Sincerely, a long time fan.

[@PNPVideocast]

Thanks for watching!

[@theoldar]

Cynicism and pessimism have been sold to the current generation as a means to keep people from even trying to improve their own prospects in the future.