Kalyani Tupkary

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.”

Clock time is not what most people think it is. It was created, and it is frequently altered and adjusted to fit social and political purposes.

For most of recorded history, people have thought of people as the only ones that were someone. Well, they used to talk to Rocks, Rivers, and Trees, but they long forgot to do that ever since. This is a book about thinking about how the world is to all the someone’s that aren’t like you and I.