Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

We need to dream new dreams for the twenty-first century as those of the twentieth century rapidly fade. But what role can design play?

other words, design can explore public perceptions of different biofutures before they happen and potentially make a contribution to the design of regulations that ensure the most humane and desirable futures are the most likely to become reality.

the moral philosopher Susan Neiman has pointed out, we should measure reality against ideals, not the other way around: "Ideals are not measured by whether they conform to reality; reality is judged by whether it lives up to ideals. Reason's task is to deny that the claims of experience are final-and to push us to widen the horizon of our experience by providing ideas that experience ought to obey.