Editor's Note: The City of Tomorrow - by Sanjana Friedman
San Francisco is a hyperstition machine. Its primary export is self-fulfilling fictions. What the technologists here invent today, you and I will compulsively use tomorrow.
Editor's Note: The City of Tomorrow Sanjana Friedman Apr 18, 2026 7 Share San Francisco is a hyperstition machine. Its primary export is self-fulfilling fictions. 1 What the technologists here invent today, you and I will compulsively use tomorrow. All culture is predicated on San Francisco, both in the sense of the platforms, apps and devices designed here but also, increasingly, in our memes, preoccupations, and social norms. Nowhere is untouched by this city. Our fads, neuroses, neologisms, lifestyles, technologies, politics, and prophecies spread across the world with the implacability of
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