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How Big Tech Hijacked Its Sharpest, Funniest Critics

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How Big Tech Hijacked Its Sharpest, Funniest Critics

Without design fiction, critical hits like Black Mirror would look very different

Images: Maltese falcon / 1930: Dashiell Hammett’s MacGuffin was a piece of proto-design fiction. Flavanoid / 2007: A wearable device that measures your activity and uses the data to change your avatar in the virtual world second life. Slow Messenger / 2007: This gadget deliberately slows down the receipt of messages to push back against rushed, always-on culture. Buttons: Blind Camera / 2010: Sascha Pohflepp’s digital camera has no lens: Instead, it shows you a photo taken and shared by somebody else at the exact same moment. Little Printer / 2012: A design fiction idea that became a real product, Berg London’s Chirpy thermal printer took your feed of social media, news, and weather updates and turned it into a physical object. TBD Catalog / 2014: Combines Silicon Valley fever dreams with a satiric Skymall presentation. “Uninvited Guests” / 2015: This short film by Superflux shows an elderly man getting the better of surveillance devices. 6andMe / 2015: The service analyzes your social-media accounts to diagnose various fictional ailments.

By Tim Maughan

Bruce Sterling wasn’t originally meant to be part of the discussion. It was March 13, 2010, in Austin, Texas, and a small group of designers were on stage at the South by Southwest interactive…


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