Safe underground, a colony of 9000 are cared for by robots and automated services. But people are agitated. Youth run wild. How will the citizens adjust to free necessities but little else? Questions of post work, UBI, and life purpose arise.

Artificial Super Intelligence may save them. A combination of capitalism and needs met for all may save them.

T-Line: An underground train system

Robots: Various types for construction, cleaning, and other tasks

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Used for various purposes

Augmented Reality (AR) glasses

Virtual Reality (VR) systems

Lutin Bots: Advanced robotic assistants (Lutin One and Lutin Two models)

Robot baby (Taylor): Used for data collection on parenting

Hooded tunics with cooling and air filtering systems

Gyro clogs: Some type of self-balancing footwear

Induction stoves

Geothermal power plant

Aquaponic systems

Central cooling systems

Local internet

Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) system

Gene therapy for addiction treatment

Builder AI: For planning and constructing flood tunnels

Bone-mounted AR glasses

All-sensor night vision technology

Phage cream: Possibly for protection against pathogens

Online education services and AI teachers

VR classrooms and schools

Digital currency systems

Advanced medical technology (e.g., growing new skin)

VR windows for wall mounting

Many of the characters in this project appear in future episodes.

Using storytelling to place you in a time period, this series takes you, year by year, into the future. From 2040 to 2195. If you like emerging tech, eco-tech, futurism, perma-culture, apocalyptic survival scenarios, and disruptive science, sit back and enjoy short stories that showcase my research into how the future may play out.

This is Episode 59 of the podcast "In 20xx Scifi and Futurism." The companion site is https://in20xx.com where you can find a timeline of the future, descriptions of future development, and printed fiction.

These are works of fiction. Characters and groups are made-up and influenced by current events but not reporting facts about people or groups in the real world.

Copyright © Leon Horn 2024. All rights reserved.

A small group of survivors hang on in an underground habitat while the World Storm rages all over Planet Earth. Rocked by a flash flood that fills the habitat with muddy water, the group scramble to take measures to survive. A man nicknamed Mars used to work planning for the Mars Colony One mission so his expertise in keeping the group alive helps out a great deal. The group also have expert gene engineers who have novel solutions for staying alive and comfortable, involving engineering microbes to do a number of things from growing food to cleaning the air.

Many of the characters in this project appear in future episodes.

Using storytelling to place you in a time period, this series takes you, year by year, into the future. From 2040 to 2195. If you like emerging tech, eco-tech, futurism, perma-culture, apocalyptic survival scenarios, and disruptive science, sit back and enjoy short stories that showcase my research into how the future may play out.

This is Episode 58 of the podcast "In 20xx Scifi and Futurism." The companion site is https://in20xx.com where you can find a timeline of the future, descriptions of future development, and printed fiction.

These are works of fiction. Characters and groups are made-up and influenced by current events but not reporting facts about people or groups in the real world.

Copyright © Leon Horn 2021. All rights reserved.

1. A.R. (Augmented Reality) glasses/systems

2. Respirators with mycelium filters

3. Med bot (medical robot)

4. Quantum computer (damaged)

5. Aquaponics system

6. Food-brew systems

7. Lutin Bots (robots, now inoperative)

8. BritLights (lights that charge using ambient radio waves)

9. 3D printer (broken)

10. Gene engineering equipment

11. Incubation cabinet

12. Neuplus (some kind of neural enhancement, no longer available)

13. Whisky distiller (broken)

14. Car batteries (salvaged for power)

15. Liquid sunlight machine (for growing plants without sunlight)

16. Plastic recycler

17. Cell editor (for bioengineering)

18. Rail catapult (for launching debris)

19. Smart particle mat

20. Hand drills

21. Microbe eaters (spray to eliminate harmful microbes)

22. Rock-eating microbes

23. Stirling engines (not yet built, but planned)

24. Echo locate technology (for mapping in low visibility)

25. Shot bolter (for anchoring cables)

26. Assist (some kind of AI assistant)

27. Carb-cable and pulley hoist system

28. Body goo (for cooling in high humidity)

Virtual reality addicts live 24/7 in simulate worlds. New tech allows people to leave their bodies behind and fully immerse in VR. Paralyzed people remote-in to robots to help a failing shelter. A person in morning decides to sleep for 100 years and wake up in the future as a way to escape the loss of a loved one. The ghost provider, Medusa, allows groups to get online when the World Wide Web goes down. Beautiful, charming personality workers who are some of the few still working in an all automated economy take over a bar and get and start drinking when the World Storm changes all the rules of the game. One of the last tech workers who loses her job to automation now must hack the production centers she helped create to make food and clothes when offline.

Many of the characters in this project appear in future episodes.

Using storytelling to place you in a time period, this series takes you, year by year, into the future. If you like emerging tech, eco-tech, futurism, perma-culture, apocalyptic survival scenarios, and disruptive science, sit back and enjoy short stories that showcase my research into how the future may play out.

This is Episode 75 of the podcast "In 20xx Scifi and Futurism." The companion site is https://in20xx.com where you can find a timeline of the future, descriptions of future development, and printed fiction.

These are works of fiction. Characters and groups are made-up and influenced by current events but not reporting facts about people or groups in the real world.

Copyright © Leon Horn 2024. All rights reserved.