FutureCast

⚡️ FutureCast
sf · july 10 · sfmoma : we're crowdsourcing sf's future
For one afternoon, we’ll write the future of San Francisco together, exchange ideas, and if you’re up for it, record it in your own voice. So much of our energy goes to anticipating AI capabilities, and almost none to imagining what the cities running on them will feel like to live in. This is is an experiment in exactly that.
How it works:
You start with the Signal: seven questions, each a choice about where the city goes. What machines take over, what the algorithms get to decide, and what stays irreducibly human.
Then you iterate with our AI co-author to draft a Postcard from the future out of your seven answers, tagging what's true and what's fantastical. (Yes, it makes things up. That's your cue to fix them.) Sit with your table, argue it out, and rewrite every line that doesn't sound like you, until it's a future you'd put your name on.
You walk away with that postcard, then take the mic and do a Broadcast: you read it aloud in front of all of us (only if you choose to). Not a performance, just your words in your voice. Every voice makes the final cut, woven into one finished audio piece you helped build.
Take a look at futurecast.work ⚡️
What to know:
Part of the Future of Us Festival at SFMOMA https://www.sfmoma.org/event/future-of-us-festival/
Grounded entirely in San Francisco
Catered food and drinks throughout
No writing chops, AI fluency, or optimism required, just a stake in this city and the time to imagine forward
AI is remaking how the city moves, works, learns, and looks after each other. Some of it we hoped for. Some we'll miss. None of it is settled. Bring your take and your voice, and exchange ideas with people from every corner of the city.
Seven questions. One afternoon. A future you help write.

SFMOMA is at 151 Third Street, SoMa.
Transit: Easiest way in. Powell St. BART is a 7-minute walk. Muni lines 30, 45, and 8 stop nearby.
Rideshare: Drop-off on 3rd Street directly in front of the building.
Bike: Bay Wheels dock at 3rd & Howard, half a block away.
Parking: 5th & Mission Garage (833 Mission St) is the closest.
The venue is fully wheelchair accessible, with elevator access to all floors and accessible restrooms on every level. If you have access needs, dietary restrictions, or anything else we should know, send us a message and we'll make it work.

About the Future of Us Festival
Launching on America's 250th anniversary, the inaugural Future of Us festival is a 10-day celebration of civic imagination and possibility. We're turning community-sourced, expert-crafted visions of the future into art, storytelling, and participatory experiences. With 100+ events spanning every corner of the city (floral labyrinths, speculative future worlds, dance parties with a purpose, and neighborhood meet-ups), it's a living exploration of what a more creative and generative civic culture could feel like. Organized around four themes (Green Futures, Social Futures, Science & Tech Futures, and Media Futures), Future of Us is breaking down the barriers between art, ideas, and each other, and everyone is invited to co-imagine what comes next.
⚡ Learn more: future-of-us.com
About the Future Culture Fellows Program
The Future Culture Fellowship is a yearlong program that resources the people best positioned to shape the future of civic life in San Francisco: the community builders, artists, and grassroots visionaries already rooted in neighborhoods and traditions across the Bay. Fellows design and host original, science- and arts-centered experiences that reflect their unique perspectives on what's possible, and become part of a growing Future Culture Collective dedicated to making civic life in SF more vibrant, connected, and imaginative. The event you're signing up for was dreamed up by one of the 2026 Fellows.
⚡ Meet your host: https://www.future-of-us.com/2026-fellows/yan-liang
⚡ Learn more about the Fellows Program: future-of-us.com/collective
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