Six Insights about Science Fiction Prototyping

When thinking about the future, people tend to envision dramatically advanced technology, architecture that resembles something from another planet, and social norms that have shifted in radical ways—all of it vivid, dynamic, and exciting. What people don’t realize is that the story they tell themselves about the future actually has rules. The mind applies these rules to ensure that people arrive at a future they want and can believe in. For most people, the rules don’t change. Although a person’s vision of the future may appear different because the mind is using diverse inputs—such as time, place, people, contexts, and trends—the rules that were used to Six Insights about Science Fiction Prototyping