Welcome to the Future Concern
We are an independent studio of research, storytelling, and speculation. Part archive, part laboratory, part time machine.
The Future Concern is not here to predict the future. We’re here to interrogate it.
The future has always been contested territory. Empires, corporations, prophets, and science fiction writers have all tried to claim it.
Each vision of what’s to come says more about the present that imagined it than about the years ahead.
We believe the future is not a straight line but a palimpsest: a layered text written and rewritten by generations of dreamers, schemers, and builders. Our task is to decode it. To track the forgotten, the failed, the forbidden. To map the strange intersection where history, technology, and imagination collide.
The Future Concern is a broadcast from that frontier. Sometimes it feels like a pirate signal, sometimes like a secret archive. Always, it’s a reminder that the future is not inevitable; it’s constructed, contested, and up for grabs.
If you want to know how we got here, what we’ve lost along the way, and how today’s myths and machines are already shaping tomorrow, you’re in the right place.
About The Future Concern
We are an independent studio of research, storytelling, and speculation. Part archive, part laboratory, part time machine.
Our work spans:
- The History of the Future — a living database tracking how humanity has imagined tomorrow across centuries of science, fiction, and revolution.
- Papercut — tools that turn transcripts, books, and archives into living, searchable conversations.
- Notepunk AI: Analog Intelligence — experiments at the border of the digital and the tangible, from QR-coded notebooks to AI-assisted research engines.
- Pirate Broadcasts — essays, podcasts, short films, and TikToks designed to crack open the hidden stories behind our technological age.
This is not a think tank. This is not a cult of innovation. This is a concern: a watchful eye on the machinery of progress, and an invitation to those who want to join in questioning it.
We are building a library for the age of acceleration, a map of futures both real and imagined, and a toolkit for navigating what comes next
The future has always been someone’s business. Now it’s ours.
