We live in a world that is the science fiction future of the past, right? I mean, I stood in line to take public transit to work today and every single person was holding a broadband communicator that connected them to all of the information in the world. Is a strong moral compass required to be part of this series? The two big organizing principles were definitely: What are we seeing that’s optimistic, what are we seeing that’s big? And then, what are we seeing that’s new from really fresh voices? Who are the people who are thinking really big, and then how can we make sure that we’re placing an emphasis on this huge diverse array of voices? We were building on a foundation of diversity and optimism. I think for so long in these spaces, the future has been written by one set of people, and we’re inspired by those people all of the time, but we wanted to make sure that The Verge is participating and providing a vision for the future. make sure that the people imagining this future for us represent an incredible array of backgrounds and of outlooks. If you look at the lineup we have, we also placed a pretty big emphasis on making sure we have a really diverse set of viewpoints. Who are the people who are thinking this way, who are dreaming this way? Then you look at the selection process. Nilay Patel: The first thing is that Better Worlds is a project about being optimistic about our future. Inverse: It’s quite a lineup of authors that you’ve chosen. The following is our conversation, lightly edited for clarity. I recently spoke with Patel about the series.
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“I’m really hoping this series inspires people to not only not take everything for granted, but to work hard on building the positive futures that we actually need,” Patel says.
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The axiom about books enriching the movie still applies.) (Pro-tip: Be sure to read each short story and then watch the video or listen to the audio play. Like all stories in the series, “A Model Dog” has a hopeful ending that’s slightly emotional. It would be easy to watch a fully developed series on the lives of these two people, and the three-minute video feels more like a pilot than a short film. The short story and accompanying video ( Better Worlds is edited by Laura Hudson, previously culture editor at The Verge) combines a heavy dose of smart-ass humor, blocky, playful animation, and ‘80s-inspired inspirational jams. “A Model Dog,” the series stand-out thus far, tells the story of two engineers who are tasked with making a robo dog for their boss, the CEO of a Google/Facebook-like company with more than a few clues he was modeled after SpaceX/Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Monday saw the anticipated release of a short story by John Scalzi (“ A Model Dog”), which is perfectly matched with an animated video by Joel Plosz. So far, four stories have published, with “ Monsters Come Howling in Their Season,” by Cadwell Turnbull, going live on Wednesday morning.
The cultural turmoil of 20 made the staff at the website best known for tech news realize it was time to launch something more optimistic, and all but one story in the series will be paired with a video or audio presentation. It debuted January 14, and new stories will run every Monday and Wednesday through February 13. The result, Better Worlds, is an 11-part series by an impressive roster of authors with diverse outlooks and backgrounds, and one unifying perspective: optimism. The new series is, somewhat thankfully, fundamentally opposite to Black Mirror. Better Worlds is a project about being optimistic about our future,” Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, tells me about the sci-fi series launched by the website that covers technology and culture, and up to this point, has only previously dabbled in fiction efforts.
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