But I am curious now being on the other side of that moment and having the lens and framework of design fiction and the terminology of a design futurist, how do you see that framework as a vital tool for our design industry as we are going into the future of emerging technologies right now?

Yeah.

Oh, it's such a good question.

It's funny because...

For one thing, I feel like for years I would look for how someone else defined something.

And I have to constantly remind myself that definitions are made by humans, made to be rethought, made to be reinvented.

And I am in the space to decide what design fiction is for me.

in your personal life in the pursuit to slow down and I'm really curious I'm always interested to hear how we're in a pretty tech dominant field and you are especially looking both as a scholar and practitioner at emerging technologies so I'm curious how you navigate that balance of engaging deeply with devices and media and tech professionally but then slowing