A digital gavel slams in a courtroom without walls. Faces appear as avatars—pixelated, muted, and waiting for their verdict. The judge is an algorithm, unseen but absolute, sorting pleas into …
A young woman stands before a glowing wall of screens, each one reflecting a slightly altered version of her life. Her feeds tell her what to wear, what to believe, …
At midnight, inside a data center that hums like a restless hive, the lights blink in unnatural rhythms. Monitors show everything normal, but something unseen is at work: servers freeze, …
Bright monitors cast their glow across endless rows of glass cubicles. Out in the city, LED billboards scream breaking news, conspiracy, and meme alike. There’s no escape: the world flickers …
Somewhere in the neon-lit glare of a midnight office, rows of blue light flicker across hollow faces. A thousand conversations hum at once, each voice echoing from glass screens, bouncing …
Sunlight creeps through the glass atrium of a corporate headquarters, illuminating row after row of unused desks. Screens flicker to life without a single keystroke, coffee machines hum with robotic …
In the city’s forgotten corner, children play soccer with a battered ball, their laughter ricocheting off cracked walls. Not far away, on a penthouse balcony, a teenager streams a virtual …
A row of worshippers stands in a glowing cathedral, faces bathed not in stained glass light, but in the blue aura of their phones. Heads bow, not in prayer, but …
The apartment is small, nearly silent, but everywhere glints the faint red glow of “standby”—the television, the router, a forgotten smart plug in the wall. Beyond the window, a billboard …
Somewhere in a windowless lab, a row of neural processors hums beneath flickering fluorescent light. Technicians peer through tempered glass at screens alive with swirling data—voice clips, browsing habits, sentences …