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Recent notes, dispatches, and essays from Near Future Laboratory.

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Most recent / Aug 01, 2026

Futures Thinking: Using a Multidisciplinary Approach

An interview I gave for a new book on futures thinking

I recently gave an interview for Futures Thinking: Using a Multidisciplinary Approach. I talk about the possibilities of futures work, the value of stories and future artefacts, the bewildering arrival of large language models, and the social practice of imagining alongside other people. I've included the book description from the back cover for context.

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Jul 31, 2026

Office Hours N°318

Office Hours N°318 was a conversation about speculative work inside institutions, AI-assisted making, image bias, and the future of books. One of your better questions is: who gets to shape the future, and who gets to describe it? The conversation examined the tension between long-range speculative work and institutions shaped by short-term pressures, legal boundaries, and ownership agreements. Fiction and other made artifacts can give difficult futures a form people can examine without turning a scenario into a prediction. AI can help with drafting and iteration, while human judgment, revision, disclosure, and accessibility remain central to the work. Generated images carry assumptions about race, gender, and identity. Books can be living objects. Tools, notation, and visual representations can widen access to difficult knowledge. The conversation returned to a question that runs through much futures work: who gets to shape the future, and who gets to describe it?

Jul 24, 2026

Office Hours N°317

Office Hours N°317 was a live test of Shreya and Sneha's Design Fiction ideation workshop. Participants imagined a 2045 school after twenty years in which AI had made productive struggle optional, then designed objects, rituals, and social arrangements from that future.