“Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation,” wrote British sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. The author of 2001: A Space Odyssey would know a thing or two about what’s to come, seeing as he literally wrote a book called Profiles of the Future. And yet Stuart Candy and Jeff Watson, heads of the Situation Lab and professors at OCAD University in Toronto beckoned their students to do exactly that. The Thing From the Future is an “imagination game” that places players in the role of prognosticators attempting to dream of those realities yet to come. There…