The crisis we are living in...
Transhumanism 2030
Context
Grad School Group Project,
In collaboration with Dominique Pierre Louis, Gabriela Karolak, Jack Burns, Tingting Jiang
2020/11 - 2020/12
Approach
Desktop Research, Future Speculation
Video Editing, Animation, Illustration
Website Design,
Exhibition
Overview
Transhumanism 2030 investigates how technology and AI shape our people, economies and society based on extensive research of technological and societal signals. The storylines were developed through the use of foresight and future design methods, exploring potentialities of technocracies that feasibly may occur.
Lead us to an anthology of dystopian stories...
01 OASIS
Prototye
Storyboard
Social
Automation
Social Atomization (Reduced inter-personal contact)
Mass unemployment, income inequality & class stratification
Systematic Oppression
Lacking Legislation
Technological
Driveless car, drones, robots for replacing low-skill labor, policing, surveillance etc.
Internet of Things
Block chain & smart contract
Machine learning & deep fake
Biotechnology & cyber-cognition
Economical
Gig Economy
Data Economy
Surveillance Capitalism
Emotional Capitalism
(Gefällt-mir Capitalism)
Access is the new ownership
Environmental
Expanded Reality
(IOT + VR)
Misinformation
Political
Neoliberalism
Psychopolitics
Mass surveillance and controls
Gamification of everything
Algorithmic management, Cybernetics