Cover: Possible Futures Volume 3
The cover depicts the POSSIBLE FUTURES logo with Vol 003 in small text on the right. Thin teal line scribbles of stars and S-curves peek in and out of the POSSIBLE FUTURES letters.
In the middle of the cover are various human shapes which are in clusters that slightly overlap. Some are white with a teal stroke, while others are filled in as cut-outs of multimedia collages from inside the zine, revealing small snippets of cut-out text strips, headlines, images, and iconography. These are all on a slightly textured light teal background.
At the bottom of the cover is a small white strip with the DAIR logo on the left, and the text "A COMMUNITY ZINE" on the right.
Inner Cover (Pages 1, 2)
These two pages have very light teal backgrounds with black text. Across both these pages are various scattered and clustered humanoid shapes smaller than but similar to those on the cover, filled with white, with a teal stroke.
Page 1 Text:
The following pieces were created by participants in an in-person Possible Futures workshop. The workshop was facilitated by Dylan Baker and hosted at the Pipsqueak Community Space in Seattle, Washington on September 6th, 2025.
The last three pieces in this collection were made at the 4S Conference in Seattle, Washington, held September 3-6, 2025.
Page 2 Text:
We asked participants to: show your imagined techno-futures
Here are 18 of those imaginations.
CREATIVE COMMONS CC BY-NC-SA
Page 3
This page depicts a collage with the bottom halves of plastic liter bottles on a windowsill filled with soil.
Pasted on top are cutouts of crayons and two orange flowers above a yellow banner of text saying: There is as much art as there is science.
Above all these are several horizontal and vertical cutouts of white paragraph text about learning as a people to people experience, education as joining and identifying with a community, and how chuldren prefer to learn through the excitement of discovery and participation.
Credit: Adrienne, Middle School Teacher
Page 4
This page depicts a collage with a brown background and several clusters of cut-out black text on white strips or bars.
On top are various cutouts with text like: Road to Utopia, Its influence begins / in the plastic years, Always Buy Wave of Propagranda, MORE PERFORMANCE, ORDER THESE NOW. Beside these are cutouts of an eye on a dark green face and a vintage car.
Below these are several larger cutouts of individual words. They spell out: With OPEN eyes / and open minds, / we can see / so much more. We are / fierce curious, / strong, Giving Back / climb mountains / howl with the wind. On the left of this text is a large yellow, red, and brown moth.
Credit: Margaret Mitchell, AI Researcher, @mmitchell.bsky.social
Page 5
This page depicts a collage with images of pink flowers with green leaves, a black dog's head on a blue background with a doodle of a cloud around it, a flat illustration of an old beige television with a abstract organic black, green, and pink scribble on the screen, and a vaguely organic shot of a pinecone and some succulents on a wood background.
Below these are several larger cutouts of individual words. They spell out: No / Quick Fixes / more / Marxist / Classic(s) / Now
At the bottom is a spiky green star, on top of which is a cutout of a sign that reads: ABOLISH RENT
Credit: Anthrotechana, @antrotechana.bsky.social
Page 6
This page depicts a light brown page with sections of black text on white strips or bars cut out and pasted on top. The header text reads: I was 100 percent sure. The smaller text sections describe: A few industry figures have been going around touting the emergence of inexpensive "Internet appliances." But there are a number of questions associated with this proposition. The most important is, Is such a computing device even technically feasible? It probably is, but it probably won't do much. Inexpensive microprocessors are usually slow. A simple and cheap microprocessor would not do a wonderful job of creating content that is appealing enough to steal eyeballs. The Internet fosters the emergence of a third class of use: applications and data that are stored at some other computer someplace, prepared and owned by unrelated individuals or organizations, that anyone can access through this pervasive, inexpensive set of connections, the "connection co-op". While this last category is amazing even as it is today, and probably has great promise going into the future, can it really effectively replace the first two classes of use? I don't think so. Do they embrace the Internet or do they hide from it? Copyright 1996, 1999
Credit: Bryn A-G, @brynstone
Page 7-8
These pages depict a collage of a train. It is composed of cutouts of old technology materials such as chips, a camera lens cap, a bronze button-like gear, an old red and black analog compass, a ruler, binoculars, consoles, chips, rubber grips, a leather strap, a metal part, a solar panel, and more. The train is on a gridded paper background which is on a light textured beige paper. On the gridded paper, written in pen, are the words: THE TOOLS WE NEED ALREADY EXIST
Credit: Ari Webb
Page 9
This page depicts two images, each paired with a cutout strip of text in stylized, fantasy-esque font.
The top image shows a word processor window open on an older computer desktop, with the helper text "Click the close button to close the window." It is paired with the text: For we are wild beings.
The bwlow image shows a similar tab window cut in half in the middle, and splitting vertically. Inside it is a picture of a black dog leaping off a pier into a lake. It is paired with the text: Wild to the core.
Credit: Dylan Baker, DAIR
Page 10
This page is a handdrawn job listing written in black pen on white paper. Its text says:
NEW JUST POSTED APRIL 8, 2050
MEANINGFULWORK.COM
BELONGING DESIGNER Requirements: must be a decent human LOCATED: IN YOUR COMMUNITY APPLY $200K/year
We are hiring millions of belonging designers to foster pro-social, connective, kind, and resilient communities. As a belonging designer you will:
- Bring neighbors, friends, and workers togehter to make food, garden, and create art.
- Work with youth ages 2-24 to lead projects that spark joy, teach skills, and humanize as their education experience.
- Ensure each community member is cared for by the collective infrastructure that you and your community will dream, design, and develop together.
Credit: Greta, Heartmindd.com
Page 11-12
This page depicts a collage of various top-down environmental shots of terrain, with a highway full of cars and trucks split between the left and right sides by a patch of dark green terrain. In the upper left corner is cutout text spelling: No New TECH
Credit: Ari Webb
Page 13
This page depicts three sections with cutout text spelling:
Top blue section: THE 'SIREN SONG' / USING AI TO TRANSFORM / it all came undone
Middle red section: WTF
Lower blue section: A Different Message / AN UNEXPECTED PIVOT / (Check Mark) TOOLS FOR the people (Check Mark)
Credit: Jon Pincus, The Nexus of Privacy, @jdp23.blackskycomra.de
Page 14
This page depicts several images cut and spliced together. In the center of the page in large yellow block letters on a black background are: &FASTER and PAIN. At the very bottom written in red pen are the words WE CAN WE CAN WE CAN WE CAN WE CAN. On top in little cutouts are: Robots are / Algorithms / AI needs fixing. Behind all of these are cutouts of plants upside-down, a huge silicon chip with yellow lines extending from the processor, a huge green horn with chinese words, and a blue brain-like microchip.
Credit: Abi A
Page 15
This page depicts: Brown top section, in written marker text: A WAR-BOT TM AWAKES Below, scattered in a white gridded thought cloud, are cutouts of phrases: I hope, I believe, reuniting, Education, the heart, mutually, friendship Below against a colorful planet, a masked face with robots and hazard signs is pasted on a illustrated body which shows an arm extended andpointing up to the word cloud. Smiling computer icons are below this, on an overall orange and green background.
Credit: BOT65231251321189106669
Page 16
This page depicts the cutout words LIVING, Innovati, and NURTURE on a collage of plants, rocks, a perfume bottle called No. LOVE Eau de Parfum, and a large drawn illustration of various humans dancing around crossed-out bills, coins, balloons, music notes, and popcorn.
Credit: Selam A
Page 17-18
This page depicts a bunch of balloon-like colorful circle cutouts floating above several white and navy striped boxes and orange pillars that appear like a city. Connecting the balloons and city are colorful curling wisp cutouts. All is set against a blue-green textured background.
Credit: Hanna Barakat, The Maybe
Page 19
This page is on a dark blue background. It depicts a cutout illustration of computers connected to the word "Internet", crossed out. Above is is written "Cloud is Dead" and below it is "OKRs" in quotes. Below this is a purplish blob with a cloud scribbed on top, a red phone with the word "Rotary" written on top, a tree with "Tree of Life" written on its trunk, and a large text cutout that says: "Why Not Do It Ourselves?"
Credit: Tamara Kneese, Data + Society, @tamigraph.bsky.social
Page 20
This page depicts a large trunk and root system illustration covered with images of a office worker standing and touching an old computer, some schematic shape diagrams showing input output start and end, and a Caucasian woman's face smelling a green flower. On the top left is the text cutout: WOOD WIDE WEB (TREE NETWORKS)
Credit: Anonymous
Page 21
This page depicts a mushroom-shaped ripped cutout of an image of Joe Biden and a Japanese man standing and smiling against a green background. Below and around the mushroom shape are other newspaper clippings collages together. On top, written in marker, is: RESEARCH COULD BE FERMENTATION
Credit: GJ Otsuki, University of Tokyo
Page 22
This page depicts a collage of a heart illustration with a frowny face made of gears and springs and other abstract shapes. The top has text cutouts that say: YOU NEED, followed by written text: OPEN
In the bottom left corner is a paragraph of written text: Multiple ways of knowing sometimes butt heads. That's okay! When all partners are meeting each other with openness, empathy, and -- YES -- love, tensions can transform into deep connection across difference.
Credit: ‘gram: @LLORENZ44
Page 23
This page depicts a beige background with cutout letters combining to spell out: "i imagine" on top.
Below is erasure poetry done by black marker removing text from a pasted paragraph. What remains are: Research / to ease / pain TO / find / balance / between / People
Credit: Dylan Baker, DAIR
Page 24: Inner Back Cover
Five light teal humanoid character illustrations hold hands in a circle on a white background
Back Cover
Similar to the front cover, the back cover depicts various human shapes which are in clusters that slightly overlap. Some are white with a teal stroke, while others are filled in as cut-outs of multimedia collages from inside the zine, revealing small snippets of cut-out text strips, headlines, images, and iconography. These are all on a slightly textured light teal background.
Below is the DAIR logo and website link, dair-institute.org.
