An empty clinical near-future city beside a glass residential tower filled with people lying in neural immersion pods

Our Near
Future World

“The future is not one place.”
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01 / World premise

An anthology of plausible technological futures. Each story follows one possibility far enough to reveal what it changes in society, identity, intimacy and the living world.

Genre
Genuine Sci-Fi
Structure
Branching anthology
Distance
Plausibly near
02 / Three branches

One present.
Many consequences.

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One awake person overlooking an immaculate city from inside a vast inhabited neural-immersion complex
BRANCH 01

Silent Scream

The world is run by AI and robots while humans live in a virtual reality utopia.

You cannot counterfeit the human spirit.
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A person undergoing robotic neural and cybernetic augmentation in a sterile clinic
BRANCH 02

What It Means to Be Human

Genetic modifications, cyborgs, androids, bioroids, robots...at what point do we cease to be human?

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The last living tree rising above a pristine technological city in Gaia Lost
BRANCH 03 / LAST LIVING TREE

Gaia Lost

Nature replaced by ever more efficient synthetic mechanical technological systems...

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03 / Timeline

How this world
moves through time.

Now01

The point of departure

Each possibility begins with a technology or pressure already becoming legible.

Branch 0102

Silent Scream

The world is run by AI and robots while humans live in a virtual reality utopia.

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Branch 0203

What It Means to Be Human

Genetic modifications, cyborgs, androids, bioroids, robots...at what point do we cease to be human?

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Branch 0304

Gaia Lost

Nature replaced by ever more efficient synthetic mechanical technological systems...

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04 / Books

Choose a book
from this world.

Browse by series or select a title directly. Each entry can grow into its own complete book page.

Novel 01In development

Silent Scream

The world is run by AI and robots while humans live in a virtual reality utopia.

World
Our Near Future World
Collection
Our Near Future World
Format
Novel
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