End of Season 1

What will it be like to peruse the archive?

Oct 23, 2022

Hi friends,

Thank you for reading What Will It Be Like. Last week’s story marked the end of Season 1. Look out for Season 2 sometime next year.

In the meantime, if you have any prompts to suggest (what will it be like when…) or any futurist-poetic recommendations, please send them along.

And if you joined recently, there are plenty of stories in the archive. Here’s a sample:

What will it be like when you can tune people’s personalities in real time?

What Will It Be Like

Transparent Man in a Translated World

His arrogance was bothering me that day, that arched eyebrow, an eyebrow that felt like it could impact my local weather even though he was halfway across the world in New Zealand. “Of course they’re going to respond that way if you give them reason to,” he said. Since he was my friend, I hesitated to tune him. But eventually I became exasperated. While…

3 years ago · 1 like · David Yourdon

What will it be like when our favorite artists are AIs?

What Will It Be Like

The Young Critics

We are invited to the art opening by a distant cousin, who is a patron of the gallery. We are in our twenties and have strong opinions. Our opinions carry weight. The artist goes by Kodiak (he/him). His work pairs watercolors with poetry. The canvases are hung alongside the poems, which have been written on the walls, the letters large enough that they …

3 years ago · 3 likes · 1 comment · David Yourdon

What will it be like when we can download information to our minds?

What Will It Be Like

No Knowledge Except of Nothingness

When the light pours through the stained glass windows into the vessel of the library’s reading room, I get a melancholic feeling that makes whatever ambitions I once held (though they are long buried) seem perfectly irrelevant, and my pals and I start making jokes that are sweeter than they normally are, and I look around at everyone in the reading roo…

3 years ago · 2 likes · David Yourdon

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