Ursula K Le Guin famously said about science fiction that “it is not predictive; it is descriptive.” If writers and other artists are not attempting to accurately predict what lies ahead, then what is the goal of speculative creative work? What does imagining a fictional future do that scientists, economists, and technologists alone cannot? In this humanities lab, we will explore how, by thinking creatively about the future, we can think more deeply about our human experience in the present. A question of how generative AI will look in twenty years is really a question of the nature of our human consciousness; if we speculate about advances in genetic engineering, we are also wondering about questions of self-determination and agency. We will begin by examining classics of the science fiction genre (in the mediums of fiction, film, and visual art) and analyzing how they were engaging with contemporaneous questions of the time. Students’ own research will then culminate in a group or individual creative project that examines their own future-oriented question. Projects are encouraged to be interdisciplinary; examples include a painting series that imagines what humans will look like with biohacking or a short film depicting the future of political discourse.