added by Keely Adler · updated 1mo ago
Designing the Future Using Science Fiction
From the Near Future Laboratory, the definitive book describing in accessible and vivid detail the origins, evolution, and practice of design fiction: “ the practice of creating tangible and evocative prototypes from possible near futures, to help discover and represent the consequences of decision making.”
from The Manual of Design Fiction by Chris Frey
Kalyani T added
What we need are visions of the future of technology that are values-driven, but we don’t need just design fictions. We need business model fictions, engineering feasibility study fictions, interop protocol specification fictions, investment return fictions.
from Towards the Orthogonal Technology Lab, V0.1 by Matt Webb
Keely Adler added
Keely Adler and added
- We often assume that the world of today would stun a visitor from fifty years ago. In truth, for every miraculous iPad there are countless partly broken realities: WiFi passwords, connectivity, battery life, privacy and compatibility amongst others. The real skill of creating a compelling and engaging view of the future lies not in designing the gl... See more
from The Future Mundane - Core77 by Nick Foster
aron and added
- Science fiction is powerful because it opens your mind to the fact that the future can look really different. And even though the last 250 years of history have seen crazy change – from the locomotive, airplane, moon landing, computers, to nuclear power – human beings are still linear thinkers. I think that training your mind for the potential of n... See more
from Security Error | Columbia Business School by Gavin Baker
Daniel Bakalarz added
whereas science fiction “..wants to invoke the grandeur and credibility of science for its own hand-waving hocus-pocus” he was more focused at the time on the tactile and practical implications of emergent technologies. He referred to this as ‘design fiction’, which he described as a practice that “sacrifices some sense of the miraculous, but..move
... See morefrom Design Fiction - Julian Bleecker by Corner Convenience
Keely Adler added
- People understand things through narratives, including the future. Everyone is the science fiction writer of their own life. When hoping for a good life, and thinking about what might bring that about, we are utopian writers; when fearful that bad things will happen, we are dystopian writers.
from Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson - Farsight by Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies
Sarah Owen added
- To me, it’s very important to think about speculative fiction and worldmaking as two approaches for better orienting ourselves to the present, rather than conjuring escapist utopian futures that will never arrive.
from On Technology and Humanity: Alice Bucknell and Her Alternative Worlds
Severin Matusek added