White Mirror

White Mirror was a create-a-thon experiment held at Upload VR in 2016. One hundred and fifty people gathered for a weekend to write, build, and prototype stories about everything that could go right in the future.

It was an experiment in envisioning Plan A, the future we actually want, and a love letter to Charlie Brooker's Netflix show Black Mirror. Where Black Mirror catalogues the ways technology might break us, White Mirror asked the inverse question: what does it look like when the next century goes well?

Teams wrote short-form fiction, sketched product concepts, designed rituals, and built rough VR scenes. The output was less a finished anthology than a permission slip. Permission to imagine a future that is not dystopian by default, and to do it in public.

“What if the future isn't so bad after all?”