IDSA Innovation: Supernatural
IDSA Innovation: Supernatural
Quarterly of the Industrial Designers Society of America
Near Future Laboratory Global HQ

Contributed By: Julian Bleecker

Post Reference Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2024 at 17:37:15 PDT

Published On: Tuesday, October 22, 2024 at 17:37:15 PDT

Updated On: Tuesday, October 22, 2024 at 17:37:15 PDT

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Tucker sent a message asking if I wanted to do some Design Fiction for this issue of the IDSA Quarterly. I said ‘yes’. He wanted something that went along with the issue topic ‘supernatural’ — so I had this Bionomics idea/ad sitting around which...is some kind of contrivance that taps into the various plant-based intelligence processing networks and then he asked for some more stuff, so I put this ad for Androids Dream of Electric Sheep that I had from..something I don't recall. And then Mark the Editor suggested that I could do a full spread, so I added that weird copy that used to appear in those mass-market paperback books where they would advertise for other books the publisher published? And you could send in a SASE with 50¢ and you'd get a full catalog, or you could send in some money or a check or whatever and you'd check off what books you wanted and then they'd send it to you, I guess. But, I remember those things. But more to the point it makes one wonder what would be the books of this sort you might find in a world in which non-human intelligences were just amongst us. Those books you see are some of the books I imagine might be a part of a world that is roughly like ours, only not..

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Why do I blog this? 
I could do these all the time. In fact, I think there should be a hypothetical possible implication of today in every magazine out there to the point that it's time to imagine harder and time to level-up our ability and fluency and frequency of dreaming into more habitable near future worlds.
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