Column – Take root among the stars: If Octavia Butler wrote design fiction

By Inte Gloerich, January 9, 2020

Authors: Gabriele Ferri, Inte Gloerich “The Butler Timeline (BT) is a parallel universe where renowned speculative fiction author Octavia E. Butler engaged in a critical dialogue with researchers in human-computer interaction, shaping the genre of design fiction differently from how it unfolded in our timeline. Here we present a meta-speculation, imagining what could have been [...]