Four Futures, Life after Capitalism, by Peter Frase

An insightful book about the future of humanity in the context of automation and climate change. Placed somewhere between science fiction and futurism, this book speculates about four possible future scenarios for humanity, arguing that class struggle is the factor to determine how automation and technology advancement will play in everybody’s benefit (or not) and how climate change will affect society.

Peter Frase qualify his practice as “social science fiction”. However, his work could also be qualified as design work, as it creatively develops well informed future scenarios. As he purposely focuses his work not on what is probable but on what is possible, his work might be close to speculative design.

Here, his article in Jacobine,

https://jacobinmag.com/2011/12/four-futures