Build Strategic Imagination with Business Sci-Fi
In the age of AI, imagination becomes strategy.
Every organisation has a strategy department. None has an imagination department.
And yet, when machines can think, imagination is the only strategy that survives disruption. While plans fail and predictions expire, the ability to envision alternatives continuously adapts.
By training strategic imagination, you're investing in the one skill that becomes only more valuable as AI advances.
That’s what Practical Futures helps you practice: building strategic imagination with Business Sci-Fi.
Focus on futures worth building
Organisations spend millions on prediction, but nothing on imagination. And here’s the truth: people act on futures they want to live in. Optimistic speculation motivates better than apocalyptic scenarios.
Every Saturday, you'll receive a business sci-fi story that transforms abstract futures into Monday morning decisions. Instead of abstract scenarios of climate dystopias or flying cars, Business Sci-Fi explores futures worth building: protopian glimpses of ordinary life. Performance reviews becoming performance previews, the morning your AI teammate gets promoted before you, or when the intern's algorithm outperforms the board's five-year strategy.
This is narrative microdosing: high-frequency, low-intensity futures training that builds comfort with uncertainty and strengthens your imagination muscle week by week.
You're only a few stories away from improving your confidence leading futures-focused discussions and transforming 'what if' scenarios into 'here's how' strategies.
Your first memory from the future
Every story is paired with "memory from the future" prompts, strategic thinking exercises rooted in episodic future thinking that help you mentally pre-experience tomorrow's challenges to build better strategies today.
This isn’t about prediction.
It’s about practice.
Ready to practice your first future?
Science fiction lets you pre-experience what might happen next, before it costs you anything to be wrong.
Don't predict the future. Rehearse it.
Join readers in over 40 countries exploring a growing library of 80+ futures. Pick a story, read for 5 minutes*, and see tomorrow differently.
Pick the industry that matters to you →
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Explore the technology that keeps you up at night →
*Fair warning: some readers reported experiencing the 'just one more story' effect.
Who’s behind Practical Futures?
Pleasure to meet you, Pawel here. I’ve spent a decade designing complex enterprise products and another in the creative industries. Still, it took a global pandemic to make me realise imagination is the only strategy that survives disruption.
Now I’m on a mission to help leaders like you build tomorrow’s most essential skill: strategic imagination.
See you in your inbox this Saturday.
Practical Futures: Business Sci-Fi for Strategic Imagination. Because in the age of AI, imagination is strategy.
