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On Wednesday, May 20 2026 at 12:30-14:00 EDT (16:30-18:00 UTC) Folktech will join with Protopian Prize to host a Storytelling Workshop.
The Protopian Prize is a fiction contest that asks what we can envision as people working toward liberatory futures, meeting obstacles, and making real change. “Protopian”—a word coined by Kevin Kelly, one of the contest’s judges—means an achievable, optimistic future characterized by continuous, incremental progress rather than revolutionary leaps or a static, perfect state. Protopian stories imagine a future that is neither flawless nor catastrophic, but instead workably better than today. It’s about plausible progress rather than perfection or collapse.
In this event, via collaborative stories and exploring different modes of storytelling, a world will be imagined as it might be if Folk Tech principles infused digital technology, supporting daily life and interdependence without the extraction, exploitation, or surveillance found in most proprietary technology today
GUEST
Karl Schroeder – Toronto-based science fiction writer and futurist
HOST / MODERATOR
LX Cast – Founder, Spacious
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