This Week, Remember That Literally Any Future Is Possible

If anyone has any ideas about what the hell is going to happen this week, it’s speculative fiction writers

Brian Merchant
OneZero
Published in
3 min readNov 2, 2020

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Illustration: Jinhwa Jang

Seemingly infinite branching futures lay before us, most of them bad-shaped. Will the pandemic and wildfires leave us in withered, blasted ruins? Will the new Supreme Court finally transform…

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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.