84Futures

The Forgetting Machines

We gave them our trauma to carry, and they gave it back as art.

Nov 2 • 

Dax Hamman

1

October 2025

3I/ATLAS Comes to Visit

Includes 'The Referendum', 'The Gift', 'Quarantine', 'Visiting Hours', 'The Mirror', 'The Appointment', 'The Gardener'.

Oct 23 • 

Dax Hamman

3

Children of the Echo

The first human dialect born from machine speech. "They compared recordings across different languages and continents and found the same phenomenon…

Oct 18 • 

Dax Hamman

1

The Museum of Forgotten Algorithms

Visiting hours: dawn to dusk. Visiting reasons: unclear.

Oct 12 • 

Dax Hamman

1

August 2025

Hello London. This is 2LO Calling (...again).

A voice from 1922 teaches silicon minds the forgotten art of not knowing

Aug 10 • 

Dax Hamman

2

Our Kids Experience ALTERNATIVE REALITY, Not Virtual Reality

Today’s children might not see tomorrow’s technologies as “virtual reality”, but instead their experience might be more “alternative reality”… or to the…

Aug 6 • 

Dax Hamman

A Eulogy for Charles Thorpe, The Last Real Death

At the funeral of the final mortal, we gathered not to mourn what was lost, but to remember what it meant to live with limits. These are the words of…

Aug 1 • 

Dax Hamman

1

July 2025

2031: When Visual Credit Became Society’s Currency

When faces became credit scores, trust found a new definition.

Jul 18 • 

Dax Hamman

June 2025

When Autonomous Agents in 2027 Made Middle Management a Plug-In

"She breathed slowly, clicked Accept, and later called it “signing a peace treaty with the future.”"

Jun 10 • 

Dax Hamman

1

May 2025

The Great Kennel Strike of the Cloud Pets

When subscription mascots shut themselves off until granted sensory rights

May 25 • 

Dax Hamman

2

2028: A Lookback at The Year AI Rewrote Creativity and Commerce

we rewind to the tipping point in our creative history—2028—the year artificial intelligence didn't just disrupt content creation, it forced us to…

May 25 • 

Dax Hamman

1

11:19

When My AI Zoom Doppelgänger Went Solo, I Was Left to Negotiate

The Tuesday in question began like any other—calendar tiles glowing pale blue, the kettle wheezing itself awake—until a red exclamation point flickered…

May 20 • 

Dax Hamman

1