Speculative design fiction: free ebook “An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter”

As part of a long-term forecast on the future of networked objects, The Institute For The Future, produced an anthology of speculative stories by prominent scifi writers: “while science is constrained by the laws of nature, art is limited only to the imagination [and] is a rich source of signals when developing future scenarios, and studying the myths and realities that will shape tomorrow”.

They write: “Art and science conjure up ideas through vision, intuition, and study, and use myriad techniques to manifest those ideas in the physical world. But while science is constrained by the laws of nature, art is limited only to the imagination. It is a rich source of signals when developing future scenarios, and studying the myths and realities that will shape tomorrow”.

Download the entire ebook for free at http://www.iftf.org/fanfutures/