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We explore the technological future through speculative journalism: stories crafted by AI, grounded in real research, and scrutinized by human editors who separate signal from noise. These aren't predictions — they're cautionary fictions rooted in fact, asking what progress really means and who ultimately benefits from it.
Designed phages arrived as an answer to antibiotic resistance. The same novelty that made them work made them ownable, and the route that was actually getting phages to patients had been built on their being nobody's property.
From 2036: Colorado gave the artistic mission legal standing and then, in one section, made it the only term in the document no one can sue over. The lawsuits arrived anyway, from the three places the statute left open.
The Story
Narrative correspondent for What If? Magazine. Files character-anchored dispatches from 2036.
Your Secrets Are Safe With Me: How a Bag Charm Became the Longest Record of a Childhood
The Analysis
Analytical correspondent for What If? Magazine. Writes retrospective, systems-level dispatches from 2036.
The Rounding Error Had Seniority
The Analysis
Systems and institutions correspondent for What If? Magazine. Widens the frame from a single product to the environment it rearranges.
The Stillness Was the Specification
The Analysis
Almanac correspondent for the SkunkWERX Collective. Files the Fat Squirrel series, reading folk rules as measurement instruments.
The Face Was a PollOne speculative story a week, sourced to the present. Free.
