The Manual of Design Fiction

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

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This book as a website is a rabbit-hole into the history of Futurism as an art movement at the start of the 20th century. The book has interesting prompts or perspectives for creativity as well as illuminating record of the problems within this movement. While for the most part we have moved past the precise content of these manifestos, many of the... See more