Are Escapism and the Utopia tool for empowerment? Could we address Nostalgia and Escapism as regressive or that they might function as planning tools? My existing investigation is informed by the following themes: Techno-animism, Nostalgia, Escapism, and Retrofuturism.   I would like to be able to investigate and produce narrative-type artefacts to reflect and speculate on proposed scenarios influenced by technology and its present and possible impact on the human condition... by abandoning current technologies. I have failed. I have felt devoured by the digital tools I have worked with since 1997. I then used the same tools to imitate the analogue ones from which they have been modelled. This book is a testament to duplicity and dishonesty.