Every day (except for most days now), I climb into the janky time machine and bring something back.
Design Fiction Daily is my Substack publication — part creative practice, part futures exploration, part design exercise disguised as a travel blog from timelines that don't exist yet. The premise is simple: I'm a time-travel blogger and futures archaeologist who visits near-future worlds, lands in mundane locations, grabs whatever artifacts I can find before the machine yanks me back, and then writes up what I saw.
The constraint is the whole point. I never know the exact year. I only get fragments — a product label, a transit pass, a restaurant menu, a public health notice. From those shards, I have to reconstruct an entire world. What changed? What didn't? What feels eerily familiar? The artifacts are small and deliberately ordinary, because the most interesting futures don't announce themselves with flying cars. They show up in the fine print.
AI is central to the process. I use image generation tools to rapidly produce the artifacts themselves — packaging, signage, interfaces, documents — then wrap each one in a narrative dispatch that gives it context and provocation. The topics range from climate adaptation and biotech to AI governance and the quiet weirdness of everyday life a decade from now. Each post is designed to be a conversation starter: specific enough to feel real, open enough to invite debate.
The daily cadence mattered. Futures thinking is often treated as a big-budget workshop exercise — something organizations do once a year in an offsite. Design Fiction Daily treats it as a muscle. A daily creative act that builds fluency in thinking about what's next by making it tangible, shareable, and human-scaled. One artifact at a time, every day, accumulating into a body of speculative work that maps the territory between where we are and where we might be headed.
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