time machine
Visit the FUTURE
The future seen by a computer.
Futurization is a complex but extremely creative and stimulating task. We know that a digital tool can never replace the magic of a good thought experiment to collectively imagine the future, or the illusion of having imagined a future with your ideas and having found a way to express it. But what if I could help you?
The time machine creates short future scenarios based on a small hypothesis. The result are stories that allow to discuss and systematically explore different possibilities associated with specific parameters. In this way, it facilitates the exploration of the future and provides narratives from which to start discussions.
No future is problem-free
It is difficult to imagine a utopian future where everything is cakes and ale. History is always written from the conflict between different tendencies and imaginaries — although we might strive for a way out. In fact, even the most idealistic future (or especially that future) is in opposition to the current reality, and therefore to get there there will be conflicts.
The Time Machine provides some ideas of what may be the most relevant conflicts in the explored futures.
Artificial Intelligence at the heart.
The time machine is powered by artificial intelligence. Thanks to this technology, we can generate future scenarios in a matter of seconds, but we can also quickly classify and analyze them.
AI opens up multiple opportunities for us to facilitate futurization processes, while feeding them with data from different sources and multiple expertise much more easily than in classic processes. We want to continue experimenting and improving the models to make the time machine a better tool for futurization.
Our goal is that, in the future, the time machine will be able to provide maps of futures that show transition paths to collectively envisioned and left futures and that these will be in the public domain.
The present shining on the future
Futures are speculations made from our desires and perception of the present. The time machine leverages more than 60 indicative parameters that the present gives us to be able to speculate different future scenarios with precision.
These parameters are illustrated in the set of cards with future drivers. An ideal complement to discuss in a group the trends that will define the coming years.
Live a story
The time machine generates short stories to be able to understand more easily and relate to the possible futures that can be imagined. Through a person's life, it will be easy to explicitly understand what each of the futures you can imagine looks like.