This document discusses time travel and alternative futures through a presentation by Trevor Haldenby, a time traveller. The presentation explores what if realities and futures could be improved by blurring lines between fiction and reality. It discusses concepts like the BRX virus, control of individuals from within through technologies, and habits of effective time travelers like being proactive, beginning with the end in mind, and putting first things first with the basic time travel toolkit. It encourages thinking about plural futures and understanding other perspectives before commencing probing into alternative scenarios. Time travel should be exciting, synergistic, and viewed as a long game powered by stories.
1. THE FOLLOWING FITC TALK HAS BEEN APPROVED
FOR YOU, THE PEOPLE
BY A ROGUISH TIME TRAVELLER NAMED TREVOR
CONTAINS INTENSE SCENES
OF EXPERIENTIAL FUTURES
2. “It is our future in
which we will find
our greatness.”
-Pierre Trudeau
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53. How does getting to
the future work?
Head straight on Rocket Science for about a year,
then take a left at Science Fiction Storytelling.
Signals
& Horizon Scan
Critical
Uncertainties
Scenarios
Implications
and Strategy
Trends
57. Jessica’s five-year-old daughter Chan is in the other
room, screaming in broken Mandarin at the Paint-Like-Me
app on her tablet as it struggles to customize thousands
of open-content art history lessons into one just right
for her. NuLook picks up on the tantrum, briefly confused
by the presence of another language, and instantly
switches the interface on Jessica’s phone into a swirl of
Chinese characters. Jessica sighs. These new tools of
design may be inclusive, but they can be frustrating as
hell when your kid is a different kind of artistic genius
(in a different language) every three months. And this is
only the beginning. In an era of open- source education,
Chan’s curricula and diploma are as likely to be
influenced by her family members, future global
competitors, and Global Happiness Index score as by grades
on her final exams...
Written Scenarios
What might happen in the future?
89. "This is not science fiction,
it's science eventuality."
- Steven Spielberg
Jurassic Park Production Notes
90. Agatha Haines's project, Circumventive Organs, is a collection of
imagined bioprinted organs, such as this fleshy defibrillator
Steve Gallagher
"Design fiction is the
deliberate use of diegetic
prototypes to suspend
disbelief about change.”
—Bruce Sterling