Depictions of manufacturing in fiction.

1. Design Fiction
Depictions of design and manufacturing in fiction
Natasha Carolan | HighWire Doctoral Training Centre | @natashacarolan
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

2. Depictions of design and manufacturing in fiction
Metropolis
Depictions of design and manufacturing in fiction
Natasha Carolan | HighWire Doctoral Training Centre | @natashacarolan
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

3. Depictions of design and manufacturing in fiction
The Iron Heel
‘... the fiat of the Plurocracy went forth,
and the small business men and
manufacturers swamped him with a flood
of notices that he must discontinue
running their old advertisements’
The Iron Heel by Jack London
Natasha Carolan | HighWire Doctoral Training Centre | @natashacarolan
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

4. Depictions of design and manufacturing in fiction
We
‘And everyone must lose his mind,
everyone must! The sooner the
better! It is essential — I know it.’
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Natasha Carolan | HighWire Doctoral Training Centre | @natashacarolan
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

5. Depictions of design and manufacturing in fiction
Brave New World
‘Cleanliness is next to fordliness.’
‘strange to think that even in Our
Ford's day most games were played
without more apparatus... imagine
the folly of allowing people to play
elaborate games which do nothing
whatever to increase consumption.’
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Natasha Carolan | HighWire Doctoral Training Centre | @natashacarolan
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

6. Depictions of design and manufacturing in fiction
1984
‘But actually, he thought as he readjusted the
Ministry of Plenty's figures, it was not even
forgery. It was merely the substitution of one
piece of nonsense for another...’
Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
Natasha Carolan | HighWire Doctoral Training Centre | @natashacarolan
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

7. Depictions of design and manufacturing in fiction
Makers
‘On the one hand, these things are
networked volumetric printers, but on
the other they are superb category
busters that have achieved an entirely
justifiable...market penetration
Makers by Cory Doctorow
Natasha Carolan | HighWire Doctoral Training Centre | @natashacarolan
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

8. Depictions of design and manufacturing in fiction
Methuselah’s children
‘He let the pictures of cloth designs
flicker past his eyes while he let the
persuasive voice of the catalog drone on
until a pattern showed up which was
distinctly unmilitary and not blue,
whereupon he arrested the display and
punched the combination for his size.’
Methuselah’s Children by Robert A. Heinlein
Natasha Carolan | HighWire Doctoral Training Centre | @natashacarolan
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

9. Depictions of design and manufacturing in fiction
Pay for the Printer
‘From cars to radios to fine
glassware, the Biltong life forms
could create beautiful, working
copies. The survivors of war relied
on the Biltong life forms to make
copies - "prints" - of necessary
objects.’
Pay for the Printer by Philip K. Dick
Natasha Carolan | HighWire Doctoral Training Centre | @natashacarolan
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

10. Depictions of design and manufacturing in fiction
The Diamond Age
‘Why don't you just compile it?’ Harv
said. ‘The M.C. can make wood.’
‘It can make fake wood,’ Rita said, ‘but
some people don't like fake things.’
Matter Compiler in The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Natasha Carolan | HighWire Doctoral Training Centre | @natashacarolan
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

11. Depictions of design and manufacturing in fiction
The Diamond Age
‘...each lithocule knew exactly where it
was supposed to go and what it was
supposed to do. They were tetrahedral
building blocks of calcium and carbon,
the size of poppyseeds, each equipped
with a power source, a brain and a
navigational system.’
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Natasha Carolan | HighWire Doctoral Training Centre | @natashacarolan
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

12. Depictions of design and manufacturing in fiction
Star Trek
Natasha Carolan | HighWire Doctoral Training Centre | @natashacarolan
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

13. Depictions of design and manufacturing in fiction
Rule 34
‘The law especially disna like your kind
owning 3D printers, fabbers capable of
taking a design template off a pirate
website somewhere and extruding it to
the real world to an accuracy of a few
microns... the Polis don’t like
unmonitored fabs.’
Rule 34 by Charles Stross
Natasha Carolan | HighWire Doctoral Training Centre | @natashacarolan
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

14. Depictions of design and manufacturing in fiction
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
‘When the 'Drink' button is pressed it makes
an instant but highly detailed examination of
the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic
analysis of the subject's metabolism... no-
one knows quite why it does this because it
then invariably delivers a cupful of liquid that
is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
Natasha Carolan | HighWire Doctoral Training Centre | @natashacarolan
Tuesday, 11 October 2011