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What happened next?
What happened next? I performed my piece, and you want to hear more, so I’m writing the next bit. More ice melted. We follow in the steps of King Canute. The sea is reshaping his foot prints as the shingle shifts beneath us.
‘PostReality’ read by the author at Virtual Futures’ Near-Future Fictions on the theme of Lasting Labours.
The Print Gardener returns to find new material growing in a different place to where it was planted and the Fabric Nursery Manager both nervous and excited in equal measure as they begin the handover. ‘There’s been a few unexpected developments. Rest assured I’ve been a good citizen. For a bit.’ Meanwhile are you sitting…
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Watching the Ones and Zeroes Go Round
Big thanks to the best ever Post Reality Service Provider for restoring full operations just in time to share this from BIG DATA LDN at Olympia from 14 November 2018 a mere near fortnight ago. The Data Lake laps the shore as the seas rise. Water finds its own level everywhere. Our narrative is drowning…
You Decide (The Maskifier: Part 2)
‘And that’s it really. The sea. And the way it pounds the shore. It takes our old defences and turns them into battering rams. It pours over the fields at high tide,’ you say. The Maskifier nods, fingers tapping away, looking at the robotic arm next to them carving rose wood marquetry in intricate loops…
The Maskifier Will See You Now (The Maskifier: Part 1)
In the corner, loops of old smoke effects lurk and spill outwards. You hold your breath as you walk into the shimmering billows. Peering through them you see a word float forwards in front of you and read in rainbow bubble text ‘Welcome’. You’ve waited weeks for this meeting, and now you’re here, actually here,…
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The present is giving us no time for the future. The now absorbs it all. We’re being overtaken by events and left in their wake, flotsam and jetsam on the shore, pushed around by the rising tide. Breathe that sea air deep, and try to remember which season it is. Better still, go to the…
Life in the Old Cat Yet
Reports of its demise are exaggerated. Instead, it has landed on its feet. Truly the beast has nine lives. And each of them is charmed. Stay a while then and contemplate this: London is still open. Space is closer to London than Oxford. Let’s twin London with the Lunar Habitation at Shackleton’s Crater on the…
Joining the cargo cult
You had more invested in things staying the way they were than you ever realised when you started to change them. Change takes on it’s own momentum and pulls you around. Change or be changed. The only constant is change. Even resisting change, steady as she goes, don’t rock the boat, requires constant adjustment. Trimming…