#FUTURETHING

A game by Stuart Candy and Jeff Watson. Digitally brought to you by your friends at radical✦

About.

A Thing From The Future

Your brain is wired to think linearly. This game rewires it.

The Thing from the Future is an award-winning imagination game created by the Situation Lab to help you dream up artifacts from wildly different possible futures. We’ve built a radically slimmed-down version you can play right here, right now.

How it works: Hit the button. Get a prompt. Imagine what exists in that future. Share it with your team. Watch assumptions crumble.

We believe there’s real value in envisioning alternate futures and challenging present assumptions through play. Think of it as future-focused Mad Libs that actually makes you better at your job.

Your Thing.

In a future defined by _____, there is a _____ related to _____. What is it?

Get Another Thing From The Future

Ways to Use This.

  • Warm up your team before a strategy session
  • Break mental models during innovation workshops
  • Spark conversations about where your industry is heading
  • Challenge assumptions about what’s possible
  • Just have fun thinking weird thoughts

In a dystopian mood? Try the dark reimagining of the original game →

Game Design and Content (non-dystopian version) © 2015 CC-BY-NC-SA by situationlab.org | @sitlab
Image by Rick Guidice, courtesy of NASA Ames Research Center and New Museum Los Gatos
Application © 2025 MIT License by be radical Group LLC