This week was a bit of a highly generative and exciting few or four days here at the Near Future Laboratory's Distributed Global Headquarters. You see, there were some diverts and distractions, the most exciting of...

There’s a wonderful Design Fictional moment, done with a kind of subtlety and incisiveness that implicates the residue of a possible episteme in which the Algorithm is the central mechanism of our relationship to the world, and to ourselves.

You'd find that moment at around 43:50 in Westworld, Season 3, Episode 01. In that moment our earnest protagonist Caleb gets a call checking in on an unlikely desk job he recently applied for. On the phone is an agent from the company. The conversation is polite and quite empathetic on the part of the agent, who is explaining that, unfortunately, it wasn’t going to work out — seems there wasn’t a good fit. 🤷🏽‍♂️

THis post discusses "In The Matter of Everalbum and Paravision" and explores the implications of algorithmic regulation through a Design Fiction lens. It highlights the need for thoughtful engineering and design to address the challenges posed by algorithms in society. The post also presents a fictional scenario to stimulate imagination about future possibilities.

In the film ‘Bird Box’, based on the book of the same name, humans are driven to such a degree of despair that they take their own lives when they see the shadow of their consciousness — the thing they most fear. They...

Fiction effervesces gamely, shaping our imagination, consciousness, our habits, our aspirations, the things we wear, the words we speak, the tears we shed and laughs we laugh, and the various and sometimes deadly...

The Fosbury Flop and the power of unanticipated, optimistically contrarian perspectives to make creative work "creative" in...'

A blind spot in modern user-centered design is the difficulty in handling the 'unintended use case'.

What was that box of breakfast cereal doing in Minority Report, anyway? A sci-fi film set in the future? And breakfast cereal?

Have you ever gotten one of these emails? Where the future is zipped up into a PowerPoint deck and then sent around in an email with the expectation that the recipients will open and read it and then become excited...