Your Complete Guide to Dreaming Up a Survivable, Sustainable Future

How ‘visionary fiction’ can be used as a framework for building a better world for all humans

Brian Merchant
Future Human
Published in
2 min readOct 23, 2020

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One of the key steps to building a survivable, sustainable future is envisioning and articulating what that future should look like. That might sound obvious, but it’s easier said than done, and it’s a step that’s too often taken for granted. And yet: Black-led movements have been advocating for police and prison abolition for decades, and describing what…

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Brian Merchant
Future Human

Senior editor, OneZero, books, futures, fiction. Author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, founder of Terraform @ Motherboard @ VICE.