by Nick Montfort ✦ Review by David Lorimer, April 2018
This book is based around the idea of future-making defined as the act of imagining a particular future and consciously trying to contribute to it. The chapters look at many ways of engaging with the future, beginning with oracles, prophecy and divination then moving on to literary utopias, fairs that exhibit the future, the emergence of the web and Science Fiction. The main thrust of the book is to think seriously about how to build a better future rather than waiting to see what happens. A useful interdisciplinary discussion.
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