Institute For The Future

A Short Vision of the Future by Bruce Sterling

"From Beyond the Coming Age of Networked Matter," by Bruce Sterling, is a story from An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter—a collection of six original science fiction stories commissioned for our Technology Horizons Program research on the coming Age of Networked Matter (#networkedmatter).

Read the full story and then enter our #FanFutures contest for a chance to win a limited edition print copy and t-shirt.