Anthony Dunne is University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry at The New School/Parsons in New York.

Fiona Raby is University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry at The New School/Parsons in New York. Her projects are included in several permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the MAK, Vienna.

Together they are the award-winning partners behind the design studio Dunne & Raby. They are also Co-Directors of the Designed Realities Studio at The New School/Parsons in New York. Their books include Hertzian Tales, Design Noir, and Speculative Everything.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Realists of a Larger Reality
1. An Archive of Impossible Objects
Objects Made From Words
A Machine-Generated Impossible Object
An Object from an Alternative Visual History of Quantum Computing
Swatches of Forbidden, Chimerical, and Imaginary Colors
A Pocket Universe in the Home
Objects Undergoing Space-Time Collapse
A Stone Raft
An Object from One of Einstein’s Dreams
An Object from an Alternate Quantum Imaginary
A Human, Imagined Through a Generalized Nonhuman Umwelt
A Flag for Biomia
A Vegetable Lamb
2. Quantum Commonsense: New Metaphors, Images and Concepts?
3. Unreal by Design
4. A Public Lending Library of Things
5. The United Micro Kingdoms (UMK), a Traveller’s Tale
6. Once Possible, Now Impossible: A Partial Inventory of National Dreams Made Physical
7. A Nonstandard, Incomplete Glossary of the Not Here, Not Now
C/D: By Way of a Conclusion.
Bibliography
List of Illustrations and Credits