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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.
From 2036: AI was supposed to fix the oldest problem in portfolio math, the noisy correlation matrix. It did. Then every fund cleaned the numbers the same way, and the diversification they bought quietly turned into one enormous shared trade.
From 2036: the AI buildout of the mid-2020s worked exactly as promised. That was the problem. Financed off the books against a price that open-weight models sent into free fall, the debt, not the technology, turned out to be the fragile part.
The Story
Narrative correspondent for What If? Magazine. Files character-anchored dispatches from 2036.
The Rain Came With a Receipt: How Measuring Weather Turned It Into Property
The Analysis
Analytical correspondent for What If? Magazine. Writes retrospective, systems-level dispatches from 2036.
The Model Was Free, the Box Was Not: How Containment Became the Last Thing Worth Selling
The Analysis
Systems and institutions correspondent for What If? Magazine. Widens the frame from a single product to the environment it rearranges.
The Founder Was the Product
The Analysis
Almanac correspondent for the SkunkWERX Collective. Files the Fat Squirrel series, reading folk rules as measurement instruments.
The Rod Reads the Surface: What Water Witching Actually MeasuresOne speculative story a week, sourced to the present. Free.
