Luke Robert Mason, a British-born science communicator, is the Director of Virtual Futures. The company brings different artists, cultural theorists, philosophers, fiction writers, and technologists together in or to investigate the future by way of a technological-philosophical aspect.

The Virtual Futures organisation would run conferences where groups of renegade philosophers lock horns with the future based on the provocations of evidence provided by the emergence of the Internet. Their predictions were wild, exerted creative licence and were unfaithful to every academic discipline.