My final linking post is from Christopher Rugo on speculative futures.
The post created by Christopher prompting him to address issues related to the government and elicit feelings of disgust did indeed elicit those feelings from me as a reader.
As I read the prompt, I too thought of climate change. However, that is where our similarities ended. Christopher’s connection to a pill and climate change were thoughtful, poignant and definitely elicited a feeling of fear as he cited Dunne & Raby’s (2013) distinction of “possible” futures. I would go further and suggest that his scenario is “probable” and “plausible” too.
Additionally, I appreciated Christopher’s use of DALL-E 2 to create a desired image. The connection he made between this task and task 11 were was thoughtful and demonstrated an excellent use for image generators.
In my speculative future post (found here) I focused on an underlining feeling of hope. Although Christopher’s post elicits negative feelings (as was required with a feeling of disgust), I believe there was a layer of hope in that a pill could potentially be created to solve some of the world’s problems; especially a scenario as drastic as the depletion of our natural resources.
References
Dunne, A., & Raby, F. (2013). Speculative everything: Design, fiction, and social dreaming. The MIT Press. https://webcat.library.ubc.ca/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=7411587