# We’ve Stopped Dreaming

Source: https://hyperstition.cc/weve-stopped-dreaming

March 5, 2026

Authors: Shivang Raisurana

Engendering meaning is sacrosanct to the mission at Hyperstition.

We owe it to ourselves to protract the horizon of what it means to be human, what it means to organically artifact 'experience' itself.

It has always been easy to pillory the promise of increased capability and sink to doomeristic visions of the future.

Yet somehow curiosity and sheer wonder remain nimble, unwatered.

A whole lot of 'fun' is YET to witness existence.
New sports, New media, New interaction.

And Hyperstition seeks to propound just those.

We've heard the harrowing tales of what AI could represent, but what about the unbelievably fun one? What about the vision that truly involves and excites us?

It almost feels as though we’ve stopped dreaming.

Accelerationism, Silicon Valley, and technical progression seem to represent a nightmarish, medical glum. And it’s increasingly gnawing to shake off—for the perfectly right reasons.

We’re chasing a void.

I ask: “What is it that we are building toward?”
AGI for the sake of AGI posts as a vision with no story.

Isn’t it ridiculous that progress disorients us—that the notion of abundance jolts us more than it inspires us?

I argue that abundance will NOT bring the joys it claims and posit that manufacturing ‘capability’ ought not require nauseating the public. Why must there exist a dissonance between being better off and feeling it?

Writing this, I’m viscerally reminded of Disney’s Imagineers. As a kid, beyond becoming Iron Man and a tryst with astrophysics, it was the only thing I could grasp becoming.

We parochially discount the degree to which Imagineers pushed the frontier. They fathered virtual reality, computer graphics, and in 1964, the Lincoln animatronic—which, imponderably, was the most sophisticated humanoid robot on the planet.

And it almost felt principled.

It felt as though it was the ‘right’ way to build.

To cast a vision so vivid, so human, that pacing toward it all but left one with a cheery smile.

We need an expansive, explicit vision for the future, marching not for the sake of marching, but for the sake of bringing clarity to a future destitute of a genuine story.

Hyperstition builds infrastructure expecting newer cultures and realities to emerge.
We craft products and experiences, authoring concrete worldviews that keep us dreaming.