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223. James Bridle

Scratching the Surface

CHAPTER

The Power of Design Fiction

Fiction is something that I'm trying to learn how to do and not very well. It's really surprising to me because I have a lot of problems with fiction, particularly in design,. Even its utopian best, it implies we can sort of design our way into a future by imagining what our future will be like. And so I mostly end up with single characters having internal monologues which doesn't really amount to good fiction.

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