Read the futures against each other.
A scenario on its own is a story. The set only does its work when you hold one thing steady and let the futures vary. That is hard to do while clicking between four pages, so this page does it instead.
Pick the scenarios, then pick what to hold constant. The most revealing comparisons are usually the ones where the four futures agree: where the classroom furniture barely moves, or where every version of the teacher is tired. What differs is easy to see. What persists across all four is the thing you cannot design your way out of.
Velvet Cage
Cohesive society · extractive technology
Flourishing Techno-human City
Cohesive society · human-centred technology
Division Economy
Fragmented society · extractive technology
Gilded Enclaves
Fragmented society · human-centred technology
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The four in full
Each scenario page carries the whole day: a life outside school, and every one of the five people followed hour by hour from waking to lights out.
All four scenarios