“An Aura of Familiarity”
In 2013, the Technology Horizons Program of the Institute for the Future commissioned six leading science fiction writers — Cory Doctorow, Rudy Rucker, Warren Ellis, Madeline Ashby, Ramez Naam, and Bruce Sterling — and artist Daniel Martin Diaz to create short stories tied to our research on the coming Age of Networked Matter. They asked these collaborators to envision a world where humans have unprecedented control of matter at all scales, and to share with us a glimpse of daily life in that world. It was a process meant to make the future tangible.
The results is the anthology An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter.
Read the stories from the book released so far:
– By His Things Will You Know Him, by Cory Doctorow
– Apricot Lane, by Rudy Rucker
– Social Services, by Madeline Ashby
– Water, by Ramez Naam
– From Beyond the Coming Age of Networked Matter, by Bruce Sterling
