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A model deed circulating among estate practitioners would treat a synthetic voice as property of the estate. The worked example in the appendix involves five siblings, a pharmacy chain and a vote of three to two.
A policy sketch by a small-state competitiveness unit imagines residency sold in tiers, with an annual discount. The document contains a pricing table and, near the end, a footnote about belonging.
A proposed offboarding workflow would route the leaver's final knowledge transfer through the system inheriting the work. The system would be permitted to ask follow-up questions. It would have many.
A draft practice note for the courts would require photographic evidence to arrive with an unbroken record of where it came from. Images without one would not be excluded. They would simply count for nothing.
A discussion paper prepared for a European industrial-relations forum would pay for measured concentration rather than hours on site. Thinking about a problem while staring out of a window would, under the proposed method, bill at nothing.
A statistics office would publish a methodology note on whether autonomous agents that hold accounts and issue invoices belong in the economic register. One county in the draft would turn out to have more registered economic actors than residents.
A draft service standard for automated mental health support would promise availability to three decimal places. It would also define, for the first time, what counts as an outage in a conversation about your childhood.
Headlines that haven't happened. Yet.
A policy sketch by a small-state competitiveness unit imagines residency sold in tiers, with an annual discount. The document contains a pricing table and, near the end, a footnote about belonging.
A proposed offboarding workflow would route the leaver's final knowledge transfer through the system inheriting the work. The system would be permitted to ask follow-up questions. It would have many.
A discussion paper prepared for a European industrial-relations forum would pay for measured concentration rather than hours on site. Thinking about a problem while staring out of a window would, under the proposed method, bill at nothing.
A draft service standard for automated mental health support would promise availability to three decimal places. It would also define, for the first time, what counts as an outage in a conversation about your childhood.
We made it up. Then reality caught up.
What we wrote
We wrote it in 2021
One day the junior developer's main skill could be describing the problem clearly enough for the machine to solve it.
What actually happened
Reality caught up in 2025
AI coding assistants are built into mainstream development tools, and producing code from a plain-language description is now a routine part of professional software work.
Vendor product documentation and developer surveys on assistant adoption.
The joke was the job description. The job description was updated.
What we wrote
We wrote it in 2021
By 2035 the wait for a therapist could be so long that people just tell the chatbot instead — and the chatbot could start charging for the hour.
What actually happened
Reality caught up in 2025
Large numbers of people use general-purpose chatbots for emotional support and advice, and professional bodies and regulators have begun issuing guidance and warnings about the practice.
Professional-body guidance, regulator statements and platform usage reporting.
We wrote it as a shortage. It arrived as a habit.
MISTAKE
One email a week. The future, before it files a press release.
Worst case: you laugh. Best case: we predicted the future.