#FUTURETHING

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

About.

A Thing From The Future

A game that pushes you past the obvious future.

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.

Think of it as future-focused Mad Libs – designed to break you out of one-future thinking.

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 © 2025–2026 MIT License by be radical Group LLC