About Dark Matter Foresight

Dark Matter Foresight is a narrative foresight studio and intelligence project that hunts for faint, easily missed signals in today’s world — and turns them into near-future stories you can feel, not just think about.

Instead of treating the future as an abstract thought experiment, DMF builds cinematic, emotionally grounded scenarios set 3–5 years ahead. Each one is anchored in real research: obscure patents, dense arXiv papers, niche pilot programs, regulatory briefings, funding announcements, and GitHub repos hiding in plain sight.

When those weak indicators begin to converge, they form a convergence collision — a point where multiple trends slam into each other and something fundamentally new comes out the other side. That’s where DMF lives.

Fair warning: there will be coarse language. When the future gets ridiculous, I swear — sometimes a little, and sometimes a lot. I'm like that in real life, too. If that's not your thing, no hard feelings.

Where Signals Become Stories

The Convergence Chronicles

The core DMF format is the Convergence Chronicle — longform, cinematic investigations like Signal #0. Each Convergence Chronicle has three layers:

1. The Scene
   A tightly written near-future vignette that drops you into the moment where a convergence collision finally hits reality. These aren’t distant, imaginary “year 2100” sci-fi scenes — far from it. These are grounded, plausible worlds you can almost step into.
2. The Breakdown
   A rigorous walkthrough of the trends, incentives, and technical shifts that make that scene believable: who’s investing, which protocols or systems are quietly changing, where the real leverage points are, and what the credible timelines look like.
3. The Fallout
   How it all might play out for builders, investors, policy-makers, and ordinary people: where the upside lives, where the landmines are buried, and which assumptions are most likely to fail first.

New Convergence Chronicles issues are released on an ongoing basis rather than a rigid schedule — but they usually drop Tuesdays (Sydney time). Next: Signal #1 — Dec 23. Early readers get full access while the project is still taking shape.

Following the Threads

DMF is built on a simple belief:

Most “overnight” breakthroughs were shouting for attention years earlier. We just weren’t listening in the right way.

For each candidate signal, I:

1. Scan the edges – patent databases, research archives, pilot programs, funding shifts, standards bodies, and security advisories.
2. Score the convergence – novelty, evidence, impact, and timeline. Weak sparks get discarded; the strongest move forward.
3. Build the thesis – map how incentives, infrastructure, regulation, and human behavior collide if the signal matures.
4. Break the thesis – attack my own story from every angle; look for missing evidence, counter-arguments, and failure modes.
5. Rebuild and narrate – when the analysis survives the gauntlet, it’s distilled into a narrative that makes the stakes visceral and impossible to ignore.

The goal isn’t prediction for prediction’s sake. It’s to surface actionable tension—places where small decisions today might radically amplify (or dampen) tomorrow’s outcomes.

Who’s behind this

I'm Mitch (MonoMitch), the Founder and Architect of Dark Matter Foresight.

I'm a 35-year-old Australian with a rather unconventional skill: I was born with profound hearing loss in my right ear, and moderate hearing loss in my left ear (hence: MonoMitch) – a condition that, through survival necessity, has deeply trained me over the course of my lifetime to filter signal from noise with unusual precision.

In noisy environments, most people are generally aware of their surroundings, subconsciously keeping tabs on events as they unfold around them. I don't have that option. I have to constantly pay close, conscious attention. I learned to isolate and amplify the most important information—the stuff that really matters. The stuff that keeps you alive. Rather than being a hindrance, this neurological adaptation has become a refined, distinct competitive advantage. I can see the whole room, while also catching the subtle threads that most of my peers overlook.

My background is no less unconventional. While others in the tech foresight space come from journalism, venture capital, or academia, my background has included tertiary studies in human biology, psychology, and music. I have worked across many industries, including retail, hospitality, construction, social research, pathology, and the funeral industry.

Death teaches you to see and appreciate occurrences that others often miss. Biological sciences and pathology teach you systems thinking. In combination, my life experiences have created a truly unique and inimitable lens.

I have combined that lens with a lifelong love of reading, writing, and absorbing high-value information.
Now I bring you: Dark Matter Foresight.

Why Dark Matter Foresight exists

We continuously experience a major blind spot. Here's an example:

The sudden arrival of OpenAI's ChatGPT in 2022 felt like a new epoch had dawned overnight. And things got crazy pretty quickly; three years later, the state of this technology is so hot that you can feel it burning your face.

The thing is, though: technology isn't born in a vacuum. It doesn't suddenly evolve and appear “from out of nowhere.”

If you trace this phenomenon back to its roots, you would find the enormity of the generative AI wave we are experiencing today isn't nearly as surprising as it appears – emergent signals were detectable from 2017 onward through arXiv papers, limited API access, researcher Twitter/X buzz, and GitHub activity.

Similarly, mRNA vaccines didn't spontaneously appear in 2020 as a rushed vaccination for a global, pitched war against COVID-19. mRNA research dates all the way back to the 1990s – clear acceleration signals were present in the forms of patent filings and funding allocations many years before the COVID-19 pandemic permanently changed life as we know it today.

The outlines of the breakthroughs that take most of us by surprise are actually highly observable – and predictable – if you know where to look and how to filter signal from noise.

Dark Matter Foresight exists to:

• Pull those early signatures into focus
• Show how they collide with human nature, incentives, and infrastructure
• Give you stories and mental models that actually stick

So that when the next “out of nowhere” moment arrives, it won't feel like it came out of nowhere at all.

An invitation

Humans have used storytelling to teach and learn from each other ever since we developed the ability to do so. Today we receive thousands of messages a day. Some present as if they’re important when they aren’t; many feel unrelated and insignificant. When we step back and look at the bigger picture, a narrative starts to emerge — and we can communicate it through story, the medium we’re built for.

Stories are nothing on their own. They need to be heard, felt, taken to heart. They come to life when they are shared with others.

In today's chaotic, frantic world — we need storytelling more now than we ever have.

I’ll keep listening with my one good ear.
You’re invited to stand at the edge of the event horizon with me and listen in.

Welcome to Dark Matter Foresight.