MeatballWiki | RecentChanges | Random Page | Indices | Categories A CyberPunkScienceFiction technique. Take a few data points, find the trend, then draw a dotted line past the last data point and figuring out what the future will lead to from that. The resulting idea will seem a bit futuristic and cool, but still within a grounded, contemporary reality, thus seeming more real than a more fantastic interpretation of the future.