Archive - Design Fiction Daily

The Negotiation Nation

When your toaster's lawyer talks to their toaster's lawyer

Nov 15 •

The Great Deliverer

When the optics collapsed faster than the executive

Nov 7 •

Collecting Unemployment, Literally

Work/Life Balance Finally Achieved (100% Life)

Nov 5 •

Am I Bot or Not?

When News Became a Participation Sport

Nov 3 •

October 2025

Trick or Teleoperate

When Halloween became a spectator sport

Oct 31 •

Premium Coverage for Your Hot Takes

Talking online becomes an insurable risk

Oct 29 •

No Loitering, No Unlimited Generation

Coffee shops ration the bandwidth for everyone's side hustles

Oct 24 •

Prove You're Not a Robot (And Pay For It)

Labour learns to show its work—for a fee

Oct 23 •

Permit Me to Create

In which your landlord needs to know about your side hustle

Oct 22 •

The Future Will Be Hand-Soldered

Come join the Meshtastic build group.

Oct 21 •

August 2025

Sci-Friday: Monument

Teachings from a civilization that learned too late

Aug 15 •

2:01

The Carbonarian Manifesto

or, How I Accidentally Ate the Sky

Aug 13 •

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