You’ve got about a week to get a draft ready for me and the other judges of the Protopian Prize to review. The deadline for submissions is July 31. This is a great opportunity to exercise your storytelling muscles, and get some ideas out of your head that may not have another outlet.
As we say on the website:
Today, corporations and authoritarians tell stories about the limits of democracy, and about trusting our decisions to strongmen and algorithms. These futures are not inevitable. Now it’s time to share your protopian visions for democratic futures.
The Protopian Prize fits perfectly with my ethos here at Unapocalyptic: it’s about what’s achievable rather than Utopian. We’d all love to live in some ecotopian world of fully automated luxury communism combined with libertarian capitalist freedom—why not have it all? And we can write stories about such possible worlds, but except as distant ideals to work towards, they don’t make much difference in our daily lives. The Protopian approach asks something quite different: tell us a story about what we could do right now to make things better. That’s your challenge, and, if your original, previously unpublished submission wins you’ll receive USD $5000.
If you’re not able to contribute this time around, maybe you know someone who could. Please share this post. Let’s get maximum exposure on the prize this week, for a final push.
For more information, visit the Protopian Prize website or read my announcement.
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