While I was in university looking for internships, I stumbled across the media company Embreate, and their award-winning brand Future Now. Future Now is a Science-Fiction based content creation team that seeks to explore the future through the lens of storytelling.
Being the Sci-Fi nerd I am, I knew it was the perfect fit for me to begin my media career. So I put everything I had into my application & eventually landed a role as an intern video editor.
That was a few years ago. Since then, Scott (the creator of Embreate) and I have worked together on a variety of projects, and I’m happy to say he’s became a mentor and friend.
Anyways, while Embreate has focused their attention behind the scenes, as of late they took a backseat on content creation. While producing other projects, the Future Now social medias ended up going cold, leaving their audience hanging.
Scott has asked me to change this and bring Future Now back to life.
Instead of going Dr. Frankenstein on the operation, the two of us have decided to take more of a Dr. Morneau approach instead. What I mean is, we’ve decided to rebrand FN.
While Future Now used to be an interactive Sci-Fi concept where creators all across the world wrote & produced their stories in an ever-connected universe. It is now the hub for exploring the all things related to the future, through the lens of storytelling.
Scott & I don’t just want to create stories for the sake of creating stories. We want to create content that actually seeks to examine & solve today’s most crucial problems. This is exactly what all quality Sci-Fi does right. They don’t just ask “What If”, they ask “What Now”.
In order to explore the future, we can’t just rely on the stories we & our team creates. So we’ve decided to bring it back to the basics and explore What Has Sci-Fi Taught Us from it’s infancy.
Along with uploading our stories to our ever-expanding Patreon, we’re also beginning to create Sci-Fi related content exploring the genre’s greatest masterpieces, unpacking what makes them so transcendent, and how these stories have impacted & predicted the future.
Scott & I have been A/B testing a variety of methods to go about this. One such method is a “What Has Sci-Fi Taught Us” podcast where we pick a random Sci-Fi topic and go ham discussing everything we can about it.
As a trial run, we decided to record a podcast on one of my favorite Sci-Fi books, Dan Simmons’s “Hyperion”. We’ve started uploading clips from the test-pod, you can see them below.
