Creeping Futurism
Once again, a metaphortean report from a humble embedded journalist. One who is inspired always by the neuroaesthetically inclined creatures who populate this ficto-quizzical milieu. Particular notes: this curious lot has recently regurgitated their theories of cine-molecular sabotage; 
aligning thoughts to quantum claims of scientists pursuing the cryptid-like Higgs Boson particle. As (((WFT))) explodes the space-time of material memories, physicists continue to agree that saving your ancestors from fated collisions is no cause for alarm, paradoxically speaking. In other words, as Denis Overbye relays in his recent NYTimes article The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate, “In the case of the Higgs and the collider, it is as if something is going back in time to keep the universe from being hit by a bus.”
Arguably, the possibilities bandied about concerning “future influence” on the Large Hadron collider could also be construed as an anomolous extreme of planned obsolescence. Planned, or structured obsolescence operates by building in a limited time frame of usefulness for a product, ensuring the need for consumers to continually dispose the old and buy again a familiar but newer model. The reverse engineering manifest in creeping featurism reaches its logical limits with the time-travel theories concerning the LHC. Not unlike an adventure safari into the Jurassic that obsolesces various models of the future with every haphazard step away from the presented path.
We could read all instances of obsolescence as actions of future operatives, butterfly effects orchestrated to endanger in advance would be stationary species. From beta decks to tasmanian tigers– each extinction at once opening up an alternative universe focused on the future, and marooning the residuals in lost worlds, memory holes and the shadowy spaces of network culture (or shadow cultures of networked spaces)
