How to read the files
Four rules of the street, borrowed from futures and ethical design practice. Learn them once; they hold for every case file.
Five case files
Five ordinary people, invented from real signals. Each file holds tonight, and two 2030s: the tabs switch the light — morning shift, night shift.
Five briefs, reframed
The evidence ledger
The real signal behind each case file, with links, and a note on where the facts stop and the imagination starts.
The ethics of the ward
Four honest notes before the last page. Designing for sick, old, poor and tired people is a responsibility, not a mood.
What you can do tonight
Your mark on the wall
The marks already up were left by the study itself — the five metaphors its labs climbed back up with. Answer into the dark beside them. Your words stay written in chalk on this wall, saved only in this browser. Nobody else sees them.