James Bridle wrote a remarkable essay some years back called [“The New Aesthetic.”](https://jamesbridle.com/works/the-new-aesthetic)

1. The whole NFT thing? It’s like standing between different worlds. 1. What do I mean by that? 1. What I mean is this: the idea of an NFT doesn’t make sense to enough people, and does make sense to enough people, that...

**1**. Somewhere in Holland in the mid-17th century, a time machine was invented. Or it may have been a teleportation device. This is how it happened.

As I see it, there are two unspoken principles undergirding work to create better, more habitable near future worlds.

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The process of doing Design Fiction is one and the same as the outcomes. The Process becomes the work product, which is then preserved by itself — your finished ‘Design Fiction’.

In most instances I can think of, science fiction is more than simple dramatic storytelling about the future. It is often allegory through which the present state is refracted back to us — an assessment of who we are as...

I’ll keep things brief this week as my brain is all filled up with reading our manuscript and I already begged our lovely whip-cracker crackerjack editorial shepherds with a three day extension to final-final stuff and...

But before that, I want to mention that Nick presented [the closing keynote at the IKEA Digital Days](https://tinyurl.com/ikea-talk) conference last week from his studio in Oakland. He spoke about setting the right...