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  • FUTURES

The real time-travel paradox was the friends we made along the way

Life at the cutting edge.
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  1. Rodrigo Culagovski

    1. Rodrigo is a Chilean architect, designer and web developer. He currently heads a web development agency and is a researcher and professor at Universidad Católica in Chile. He has published in Dark Matter Presents: Monstrous Futures, Solarpunk Magazine and Future Science Fiction Digest. On Mastodon as @culagovski@wandering.shop. He misses his Commodore 64. Pronouns he/him/él.

A female figure stands hands on hips by a prone figure on a wire cube that sits at the centre of a large clockface

Illustration: Jacey

She was taller than me. Prettier and with better muscle tone. Shinier hair and perfect skin and teeth. Which was odd because she claimed she was me — from the future.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00897-w

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