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The Future Concern is an independent research and media studio investigating the futures humanity imagined — and how those visions built the world we live in.
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The British East India Company Is My Roman Empire
A company waged war, toppled governments, and collected taxes from twenty million people. In 1765. Weyland-Yutani and Omni Consumer Products aren’t predictions, they are echoes.
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The Story That Gave Us the Robot Boy Predicted Ozempic
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Karl Marx: First Futurist
In 1848, twenty years before Jules Verne published his first novel and decades before H.G. Wells was even born, Karl Marx did something unprecedented. He didn't just critique capitalism—he invented a new way of seeing the future.
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Entering The Creation-Consumption Paradox
When we can create so quickly with generative AI, it creates unintended consequences, one of which I call the Creation-Consumption Paradox.
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From Talos to ChatGPT, from Marx to Musk, from steam engines to silicon chips—the patterns repeat. The questions remain. The future keeps arriving.
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Six works, one question: how did the industrial city become the networked world of cyberpunk? This editorial route shows a few ways into the archive.
Metropolis
Metropolis (1927) and Blade Runner (1982) imagine cities whose vertical divisions make inequality visible. Compare their architecture in the Index.
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