The Fiction Engine

The framework

Six interconnected engines that help organizations design the future before it arrives.

The Fiction Engine™

A strategic architecture for imagining, simulating and materializing futures

1

Scouting Engine

Detect the weak signals, trends, uncertainties, tensions, and causal forces shaping possible futures.

2

Human Construct Engine

Discover the hidden aspirations, perceptions, and mental models that may shape future human behavior.

3

Worldbuilding Engine

Construct and explore multiple believable versions of the future rather than committing to a single forecast.

4

Gravity Engine

Understand which future ideas people may naturally gravitate toward — and why.

5

Synchronization Engine

Determine when technology, society, markets, regulation, and organizational readiness are aligned for an idea to succeed.

6

Materialization Engine

Turn imagined futures into products, services, ventures, policies, experiences, and ecosystems.

Engine 1

Scouting Engine

Detect the weak signals, trends, uncertainties, tensions, and causal forces shaping possible futures.

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Engine 2

Human Construct Engine

Discover the hidden aspirations, perceptions, and mental models that may shape future human behavior.

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Engine 3

Worldbuilding Engine

Construct and explore multiple believable versions of the future rather than committing to a single forecast.

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Engine 4

Gravity Engine

Understand which future ideas people may naturally gravitate toward — and why.

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Engine 5

Synchronization Engine

Determine when technology, society, markets, regulation, and organizational readiness are aligned for an idea to succeed.

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Engine 6

Materialization Engine

Turn imagined futures into products, services, ventures, policies, experiences, and ecosystems.

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This is not a book predicting the future. It is about giving organizations a systematic way to sense it, imagine it, explore it, prepare for it — and participate in shaping it.

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