Biometric Beer Bottles

Age-gated technology closes the cap on underage drinkers.

I took a little jaunt back to my primeline this week, zipping over to just outside Detroit City where for the next two days I'll be running a Design Fiction workshop. My partner in time-crime is none other than Julian Bleecker of the esteemed

Near Future Laboratory

. We're dropping knowledge bombs on the bright-eyed students at the radical arts hub known as Cranbrook Academy of Art, schooling them in the fine art of futures archeology.

Now, in my rush to hop back from the future and prep for this shindig, I needed to cook up an artifact tout suite with purpose and efficiency. You may notice this bottle has a certain, familiar AI-generated je ne sais quoi (more so than usual). As you well know, ever since OpenAI graced us with the gift of GPTs (those new mini AIs in the form of apps), I've been tinkering on a little Design Fiction Generator product. This week I'll be taking this baby out for a test drive and hope to tease a preview very soon.

Be prepared for some fully automated luxury design fiction.

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