Futurism Stories

A tale of the future, and a bizarre utopian life, by LifeHack blogger and startup founder Simon Lightstone. Cover photo CC by Stephen Brace.

What is the border between signifier and meaning? What form can poetry take? I try, in these poems, to push the idea that you can go beyond the common use of the words...

Against many people's fears and warnings, A.I. started off as an innocent project spawned by the curiosities of scientists and tech entrepreneurs alike. It eventually ev...

The owner, founder, back breaker, ass kisser and bad man fixer of Galaxy Corp, a centuries old former accounting firm turned ad hoc center of known civilization, announ...

Ivan's third travel led him to a crumbling town, which could very well be a ghost town if it wasn't inhabited. Countless people and androids living as cattle under the r...

in which the love of your life is a star-pilot caught in a war, and you watch as pieces of him are slowly ripped away and replaced, wondering if you can love someone who...

Short poems.

"In 2122, many coastal cities were swallowed by the seas, in a world recovering from disaster latin america is a stable haven for eco-refugees from the world over...

> She's just a normal girl < He's different > She has loving parents waiting for her at home < He lost his mother a long time ago > She's bored of the n...

Two different world collides. Unexpected turn of events. Changes of heart's desire. Mind blowing twists to unveil. Powers, magic, hope and love. You're not so ordinar...

The year is 2316, and the intellectual elite have fled the corporate governments on Earth for the safety, abundance and promised immortality of the Solar Council of Arti...

After the disaster that was Earth, humans settled on the distant planet of Atherus 9. Now with the discovery of a odd material known as Kyber, there are only myths abou...

Ronald, a 21 years old guy is the only survivor of humankind after a different disarters that ended. He looks for a way to get back everything he lost (family, friends...

Futuristic travel agent with deep AI capabilities.

If you could go back in time to change/undo something, what would it be?

Anna becomes part of an intense experiment which creates chaos and self doubt. She must piece together who she really is before time runs out.