Prototyping the Imagination

Using stories to think about the future

Join us as we build the future through our imaginations, and contribute to research on attitudes to future technologies.

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There are many different kinds of stories on these pages. Some are short stories (or very short stories, called 'flash fictions'), and 'interactive fictions', where you can make decisions that effect the outcome of the story. (Like the 'pick-a-path' adventures of old.) Some of these interactive fictions, however, are written by artificial intelligence: we have given AI a 'prompt', a basis for a story, and it will present you with a scenario. When you choose a path, the AI will write the next section of the story, instantly! (or near instantly - sometimes you need to give it a minute while the AI makes up the next part of the story.)