What If You Could Only Tell the Truth at Work?
• 6 min read • society
Performance reviews become bloodbaths. 'Per my last email' is replaced by what you actually meant. HR implodes by lunchtime.
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What If the British Empire Never Existed?
• 7 min read • history
No English as a global lingua franca, no partition of India, no modern United States — and a completely unrecognisable world map.
What If Earth Had Rings Like Saturn?
• 7 min read • science
Visible from every continent, casting shadows across entire countries, and making satellite launches exponentially harder.
What If Your Fridge Judged Your Food Choices?
• 6 min read • technology
A passive-aggressive appliance that sighs when you reach for the cheese at midnight. Smart home technology taken to its logical, insufferable conclusion.
What If Marriage Had a Five-Year Expiry?
• 6 min read • society
Renewable by mutual consent, dissolved automatically otherwise. Divorce lawyers panic. Greeting card companies pivot to renewal season.
What If All Ice on Earth Melted Instantly?
• 7 min read • nature
Sea levels rise 70 metres in seconds. London, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo — underwater. Three billion people need to move today.
What If Social Media Never Existed?
• 7 min read • technology
No Twitter mobs, no influencers, no doomscrolling — but also no Arab Spring, no crowdfunding, and a lot more loneliness.
What If Oxygen Levels Doubled?
• 7 min read • science
Insects grow to terrifying sizes, fires burn twice as fiercely, and every spark becomes a potential inferno.
What If Your Pet Could Text You?
• 6 min read • fun
Your cat would leave you on read. Your dog would send 47 messages before you've finished breakfast. Both would spam the group chat.
What If Humans Could See Radio Waves?
• 6 min read • science
Wi-Fi routers would glow like bonfires. Mobile towers would be visible pillars of light. Cities would be blindingly bright and the countryside eerily dark.