When Marty McFly returns to his present day life in Hill Valley after spending a week in a Hill Valley circa 1955, he finds that life has become exponentially better for him. His family has gotten their act together, they've pursued successful careers, Biff waxes the family cars instead of terrorizing them. Ultimately, Marty uses the butterfly effect to his advantage and his teenage shenanigans improve his situation, improve others.
And I'd like my final project to be Marty McFly, a warning from the future.
I don't plan on building a Delorean, nor a time machine, nor could I even begin to quantify what a 'jigawatt' is. I would, however, like my final project to be a vision of the future of the garbage of Islais Creek, one that if sent back in time (our present day) could ultimately affect the future.
These installments of future warnings I'm calling "McFlys". I would like to construct garbage of the future, make documentation of it, and then 'send them back in time' to our present day. Thus altering the space time continuum for what I hope is the better.
I'm taking a slightly dystopian view of the world based on work such as Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 1984 by George Orwell, and Back To The Future 2 by Robert Zimekis. The trash created and documented will be connect to the refuse recovered from my midterm project such as categories of trash, which have remained a problem (do we still use paper in the future?) and what that trash looks like now.
This is a great conceptual start with a lot of possibility.
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or John Connor (Terminator)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Jo8QoOTQ4
How do we receive "McFlys" and in what format?
Be careful of what you construct as garbage of the future. It could be trite/predictable/obvious or it could make us see our current context in a different light - a reflection of what we are/have now (which is the common narrative of science fiction).
“Atlas Shrugged, Clockwork Orange, 1984, Back To The Future 2”
Why this group? What is the common conceptual thread? The thing that runs through or under all of them? What are you extracting from these and why?
“categories of trash”
What are these categories now and what are they then? Maybe the same? Trash from: food, communication, manufacturing, …
Think of trash as output from the system of humanity. What is humanity like in 500yrs? What will they be outputting? If the output is a problem, why? Are the problems different or the same as we have today? How do they deal (or not) with the problem(s).