Why I Made This Future

The Man Whose Science Fiction Keeps Turning Into Our Shitty Cyberpunk Reality

A Q+A with the novelist Tim Maughan, whose disturbing future predictions have had an unfortunate habit of coming true

Brian Merchant
OneZero
Published in
24 min readJul 24, 2020
The container ship Hyundai Fortune on fire with dark pillows of smoke.
Hyundai Fortune incurring severe damage from a fire. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

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Brian Merchant
OneZero

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