ABSTRACT
Prototypes in society mediate different expectations and experiences of time and agency over the future. In the service of algorithmic governance, prototypes support the myth of automation and lead to teleological concepts of the future. In the exploratory sandboxes, prototyping becomes an opportunity for agency, for experimenting with different visions of the future. Exploratory sandboxes then define future-making beyond the search for the universal solution, the absolute rule, and the ideals of automated governance represented by the figures of Leviathan and the Wicker Man. Prototypes that serve Kairos in governance and technology search for authentic technologies, communities, and cosmologies that preserve the personal and communal experience of time.
