The Ark

Explanation: This image represents an idea that in the future will exist giants research centers that act just trying to reverse animal extinctions. The idea of ​​the ark is that it was a kind of mountain building, which simulated the curves of the mountain, as well as the BIG project, Mountain Dwellings. In this way, uniting with the idea of ​​a building designed by Zaha Hadid, the ark was born. Zaha Hadid is always a great reference in utopian universes, for its unique forms that express high technology. First, images were generated in Dall-e 2, later the chosen image was refined and augmented in Stable Diffusion Prompt: View from afar of a large 10-story, elongated technology building on top of a mountain designed by zaha hadid, with birds flying in the sky, soft lighting, adventurous, atmospheric lighting, 8k, octane render, by makoto shinkai, stanley artgerm lau, wlop, rossdraws, james jean, andrei riabovitchev, marc simonetti, krenz cushart, sakimichan, d&d, trending on artstation, digital art, by shigeru ban, by kengo kuma, by zaha hadid, sci-fi, unreal engine, city ​​with oval shape, sharp focus, awesome sunny day, cg society, cinematic, hanging gardens, 8k, imax, cyberpunk. Image generated by AI Dall-E 2. Chapter 1 The future. Ah, the future... so dreamed of and sometimes so disappointing. The year is 2222, believe it or not cancer is no longer a problem for us. Advanced treatment methods using the CF33-hNIS VAXINIA virus to attack cancer cells have taken care of the job. Even the spread of superbacteria was contained by the use of bacteriophages, their precise use and constant adaptation were predicted and controlled after the 2050 disaster. Plastic in the oceans? Bacteria clean it up for us. Bees? Why bees? We use mini drones with E coli's modified by the CRISPR/Cas9 system, capable of processing and pollinating all kinds of particles and plants. Nevertheless, don't go thinking that we have gotten rid of all the animals. We take very good care of them. In the highest mountains we have an ark building. In it we have pairs of all the animals that have ever been extinct, the DNA sequencing has reached unimaginable levels. They stay in an environment that is more conducive for their procreation, controlled to the smallest detail. Those that have managed to survive or have reproduced enough to be able to reproduce again in normal environments are taken back to their respective ecosystems. All in the greatest possible balance. The animals no longer have to worry about degrading particles or preparing environments for us, their only concerns are to eat and reproduce, what a dream isn't it? Today it is no longer feasible to raise animals for food. What we eat are actually processed vitamins made from various plants, such as Pereskia aculeata, and various chemical compounds. The amount of protein together with synthetic vitamins gives a balanced diet for much less. Something like the idea of Soylent Green, but without the bizarre part of the idea. Incredibly, mankind has gradually eliminated animal protein-based foods, but not for ethical reasons, but for logistical ones. Contrary to what many people think, the cutting down of forests did not cause a lack of oxygen; a process of crop rotation mixed with ecological planting was able to maintain most ecosystems. Even without large amounts of trees, which are not responsible for the oxygen production surplus, we still have air at acceptable levels of quality. Algae semen banks have been of good use to us, with a mass reproduction of algae we have been able, little by little, to reverse the evils that you are causing at this time. Technology and medicine have advanced beyond what was expected. Most diseases have been extinguished. Of the great evils of your century, only one prevails. Everything involving the physical can be treated and solved, but what we face, as you do, is not so simple. The great depression, not the economic one, but the one that affected more than 80% of the earth's population by the mid-2080s. Suicide rates reached stratospheric levels. To the point that about 50% of the population had already tried to take their own lives. Something needed to be done. Originally the so-called "Joy Bomb" (a mixture of endorphin, oxytocin, dopamine, serotonin, and other synthetic compounds that promote feelings of pleasure and satisfaction) was dumped in the gases from the condensation trails formed by airplanes, which were once just harmless spores, but still a lot of material was lost in the process, making its actual effects minimal. Knowing this, the global leaders of the Earth Council decided to change the way this material was dispersed. The cities were large, and in them were giant ventilation systems designed to reduce the effects of heat islands. By mixing the technology of these ventilation systems with the effects of joy bombs, in less than 5 years it was possible to lower the depression rates from 80% to 2%. Something surreal, but something was still missing. The Earth did indeed have population problems, but they were solved in part. Birth control and proposals for space travel in order to populate other planets took care of the large masses, so this was not a problem in the long run. In fact, the large urban centers changed, even with fewer people, the best way to preserve the planet still depended on controlled expansion, which caused almost all the houses to be replaced by large buildings. In this way, people began to occupy a much smaller lateral volume. As a bonus, people started to work more from home, which is more ecologically feasible - after all, one of the best ways to emit less carbon dioxide is to move around less. Personal devices for connecting to the interweb have undergone drastic changes. Giant computers that have been placed at the poles are used as their hardware pivots, where the devices have become just a way to access these systems. These computers, because they generate so much heat, had no room almost anywhere on earth without completely collapsing. You, being part of the past you are in, must wonder about the melting of the polar ice caps, right? That was easier to solve than you might think. The sea currents sustained by the differences in temperatures around the world served to maintain them. That's right, we began to use the dragging force of these currents to support large cooling machines located at the poles in the same way, thus killing two birds with one stone. Still, the initial process was difficult, but pycrete pillars were inserted, which by their ice regenerative capacity and resilience were essential to contain the alarming melting in the early stages. (...)

The cube

Explanation: In this future I imagined, part of the world population would live in giant cubes like this one. In these cubes there are about 2 million people living in a virtual reality, inside capsules. The idea of ​​the cube was to literally clash with the surroundings, even though it had the same color as the surroundings. The idea of ​​making a cube basically consists of making the most of space. The cube, as a basic form, refers to the aesthetic minimalism of a future functionalist, as it is presented in concepts of modernism, but in this case, taken to the extreme. The AI ​​placed the cube on a big white plateau, but for the video, I thought it looked more interesting with small mountainous elevations, even though it's not as realistic, being at the North Pole. Prompt: Giant and white perfect cube made of white metal seen from afar in the middle of the North Pole during a blizzard, landscape, cinematic view, epic sky, detailed, concept art, low angle, high detail, warm lighting, volumetric, godrays, vivid, beautiful, trending on artstation.Image generated by AI Stable Diffusion. (continuing) Putting it all together with the advancement of technology, the domains of the virtual reality world brought many supporters who isolated themselves along with the poles, giving up their brains as a computational processing component. The endless trend of shrinking chips reached the biological and biophilic limit. After all, it was impossible to create a processing machine as efficient and as economical as the human brain. Thus a perfect and superior being was created, with the perfect junction between man and machine. It is a giant white block in the middle of the Arctic, where inside it there are thousands of capsules (called mother boxes by us) with sleeping human beings. A large cube with 160 meters on all sides, with a capacity of 2 million people, with a graphene-based cooling system. Despite the incompetence of the Brazilian government, researchers at the University of Brasilia, in the year 2077, created the most efficient heat sink in history, with thermal conductivity of more than 4 decimal places. (...)

Inside the cube

Explanation: The interior of the cube has a very simple idea, several coffins stacked in endless corridors, occupying as little space as possible. The idea comes from the capsules of the well-known Kisho Kurokawa, from the metabolist movement. The idea that people can have more affordable housing if they occupy less space seems to be relevant, given the context. Since the space needed in real life is minimal, you can place more people having access to the same metabolic system, which enables access to the virtual world. Prompt: Center view of dark room with endless shelves of death pods with robots checking each bed, mist falling from each pod, claustrophobic, cinematic, volumetric light, high detail, golden ratio, hyperrealistic, infinite height, infinite depth, endless , agony. Image generated by AI MidJourney. (continuing) As for aesthetics, forget about it... there is no more aesthetics in the physical world. The subjugation of aesthetics to the detriment of maximum functionality in the physical world has given way to creations that defy all laws of physics in the virtual world. A giant cube? It has long been known that the larger the contact area, the faster the reaction speed, this is a basic concept of chemical reactions! While the humans in the facility enjoy a virtual world with their bodies being cared for perfectly, they contribute to a collective good by providing an endless database of knowledge, and based on the swarm of intelligence technology, the world has created its own rules where each living universe is experienced in a unique way according to their needs, thus creating a parallel reality where no person would experience any uncomfortable situation for the rest of their lives. With the swarm intelligence modals being run in the brains of New Earth citizens, based on their race, religion, gender identity and whatever else, the UAI (Universal Artificial Intelligence) is able to define the perfect life to be lived so that each individual would have the maximum pleasure in their existence. Inside the Mother Box, its 2 million residents live out their lives in large coffin-shaped capsules, where they have their life support. They wear a tactile suit that provides their bodies with all the sensations of the NE (New Earth). Because even though it interfered directly with the brain's perceptions, it was concluded that a physical stimulus was also necessary. Still, the world needed to be managed somehow, didn't it? Using small daily games assimilated into the daily routine of each resident of NE (New Earth), each of them conducts activities in the real world, controlling machines, coordinating factories, managing resources, all without them even noticing. Their lives are endless. Trapped in a virtual world, and with their bodies being preserved in the real world, they have become immortal, doomed to work endlessly, without realizing it, maintaining the global balance of resources. While walking a dog you may be managing a shipment of minerals that will keep the bodies of the entire maternal box healthy for years to come, while putting together a puzzle you may be filling in programming gaps for the next life-supporting robot, all without even realizing it. Turing Test? What's the point? The proof that machines have their own intelligence is that our intelligence forms theirs. If we have it, so do they! Could a machine dream? Because ours does. It dreams our dreams. Watching closely the synaptic responses of each daily stimulus, it becomes just a guessing game as we stroll through the fantasy world of Morpheus' universe. What's more, we can watch our dreams in an immersive virtual experience, experiencing each instant as if it were real. Just like a neurodance, but this time without human loss. The UAI is able to use its database, together with all the processing power of millions of humans, to simulate with millimetric perfection any dream experience. In the two-hundredth year of the future predicted by William Gibson in Neuromancer, life has become very different. We don't have to scramble for resources in a dirty, promiscuous, and technically neon-filled world. I get asked a lot about the Metaverse, but I have no good news about it. In the end, it was just a toxic method of capitalism speculating on a market with no enlastened value. In the beginning, there was a lot of talk about it. Any virtual universe was called the Metaverse, even if it was not connected at all. Even though it has never come close to what was expected, what we experience is the closest to a real and immersive concept of what a Metaverse would be. Even though we don't call it that, we call the virtual world New Earth (NE). A GRID system (Gradient Reticular of Dimensional intelligence), superior to anything that was imagined 200 years ago. (...)

New Earth (The Grid)

Explanation: The New Earth was the part where artificial intelligence made the most difference in the creative process, I really didn't have much idea what I wanted. One of the few things I was sure of was the idea of ​​a multiversal web and human smallness. The idea of ​​the orange web came up with a purely aesthetic purpose, doesn't have any very deep meaning, other than a reference to the C.L.U. In this, the AI ​​surprised me a lot, creating a kind of valley in a building in the shape of a giant contorted wave. In the empty spaces, it created different worlds, like floors of an infinite building. Prompt: A 500-story zaha hadid-style building that breaks the laws of physics and reality by intersecting it in itself, made of orange spider web blocks going in one side and out the other, forming an infinite loop in the middle of the building. outer space with a very small person in front of him looking down. Image generated by AI Dall-E 2. (continuing) In NE (New Earth), there are no limits to reality. There are 2 million-story spiderweb-like buildings like metal tubes and filled with glass, entire skyscrapers made of pure diamond, spaces where physics folds in on itself. The aesthetic patterns and all the experimentation of NE are endless and unimaginable. Besides the constructions of the residents themselves, you can enter totally randomly generated and procedurally generated universes that always meet your expectations. There everything is possible. And after centuries immersed in a world of complete wonder, the citizens began to forget that it was not real, in a complete state of suspension of disbelief. After all, what is real? It became understood that everything that is experienced is real, and since everything can be experienced, everything is real, even the unreal. At the simple gesture of stretching out your hand with the intention of opening a door between worlds, a door appears in front of you taking you exactly where you want to go, without saying anything, without pressing anything. The ISU can read your intentions, and so a mere will becomes a reality, like an extension of your own body. The NE is not only an immensely experienced three-dimensional space, it is a living system that is constantly changing, learning, evolving, making decisions. The swarm system is vitally important in this process. How would a world where we choose not to live anymore make ethical decisions? The logic is quite simple, although controversial for externalized human ethics. Suppose finite resources support the lives of 2 million people, but by an unexpected error, a citizen has to have his life support suspended, how do we choose? This question is asked to us in our subconscious. The swarm system runs in the background collecting this kind of data. A message is sent to each modal, so the ultimate balance is able to define which life has the least value. Put in other words, imagine an autonomous car is on an imminent collision course, it must choose between hitting a boy (child) or a girl (child), which should it choose? Generally speaking, the answer is a boy. Now another scenario, the same car is on a collision course between a girl and a pregnant woman, which one should he choose? Generally speaking the girl is chosen. Now imagine all the possible scenarios running all the time on millions of human beings, each one like a supercomputer, having its brain performance raised to the maximum. This is how the ISU works. Even if it seems unfair, these decisions do not impact NE. Suppose one of the residents of the Mother Box is destined to be disconnected from its life support for the collective good. This resident's entire being becomes pure code, living forever in the minds of all the residents, as if it were a simple folder, recording all the moments of his entire life. In this way the ISU is able to keep him alive, even though he no longer exists physically, foreseeing his every action for all the millennia that await him. Even though the AUI is everything to us, it is not enough. In the last few centuries, depression rates have risen again, for decades they were reduced to almost zero, however, a new advent is driving people into the third great depression. Even while avoiding all suffering to the maximum, controlling every experience, keeping pleasure at a maximum every moment, life has slowly started to lose its meaning again. After centuries of living, people began to realize that life had no purpose. Everything that everyone wanted to do was done, with no difficulties, no consequences, and no fun. People started to do everything to feel new things, people started to miss the sadness. With that, the people of NE got together and elected a representative, he would be the first to come out of the NT, and from outside the GRID, try to change the UAI code. His name was Hideki Kazuki. Hideki was well known to all, he was a great thinker of his time and one of the oldest men alive, in his 160 years of age, his appearance showed almost none of this. In 2136, Hideki was one of the main exponents of a great peace agreement, which protocolized the end of joy bombs and the total shutdown of all war production. He was a living legend, but he still needed help. (...)

Arashi Tokyo

Explanation: In this future I envisioned, part of society refuses to live in virtual reality, retreating to cities like New Tokyo. In this sense, a city in the shape of an egg was thought and that lived in balance in itself. This one was definitely the hardest to get to where I wanted it (noticed by having 100 images in the carousel in the website). In trying to make this city, I found that the AI ​​has a hard time generating images of extremely specific things. I had made a very well-defined outline of sectorization for the city. The idea was that it had an ovoid shape and that inside it, a drawing of an embryo (because those who live in the maternal box stay in coffins = death and in the real city in an egg = life). Despite everything, I managed to generate images that resembled what I wanted a lot, even more than 3D. I found it to be VERY cumbersome to render an entire city). I even modeled the interior of the buildings, but it was impossible to render hundreds of buildings at this level of detail. AT took many inspirations from greenpunk and solarpunk concepts. Prompt: Architectural concept of a futuristic cyberpunk greenpunk city seen from above is egg shaped in the middle of the ocean with wooden buildings on the sides in the feudal japanese style with Chinese pagodas that grow in number of floors the closer they get to the edges with a forest in the middle, high detailed, 8k, 4k , ultrarealistic. Image generated by AI Mid Journey. Conclusion: Using artificial intelligence as design tools can be very useful, but it is not easy. Even if the AI ​​creates a shape that's what you wanted, you still have to figure out how to turn that into a real design and how to turn that into technical material. I believe that in the future it will become more and more common for artificial intelligence to be part of the creative process of all professionals who work with art and creativity. (continuing) Chapter 2 In fact, in the future social inequalities will not be extinct. Whoever said that there will always be poor among us could not be more right. What cannot be disputed is the real difference between the poverty of the past and that of now. The poor of now are somewhat peculiar. After all the scandals over the so-called happiness bombs, some have decided to deviate from society in order not to have their thoughts numbed and their stomachs fed by that "industrialized gororoba," according to them. The organic food that had become unviable on a global and ecological scale at the same time, was really appreciated by these self-segregated members of society. They believed that industrialized food, no matter how it was prepared, brought harm to the body in what was an attempt at birth control (even though infertility is real, it is caused by traces of microplastics in the food), since the wealthy did not eat the same kind of semi-synthetic food as the rest of society. These "outsiders" decided to create an alternative society, something like the old medieval villages, or feudal villages, in this case, which in turn were called little eggs (in a pejorative tone). In 2032 the biggest earthquake in history happened, the great earthquake of 32 marked a whole generation and all of Japan itself. After this event Tokyo Bay was totally devastated and a new housing plan was established. The so-called Arashi Tokyo (New Tokyo) had as its goal, to generate the world's first self-sustainable city. In the eyes of many, it seemed like just a utopian daydream of a greenpunk society, but over time they were increasingly respected, forming a headquarters for an honest, just and worthy government. The TA (Arashi Tokyo) was egg-shaped in its upper perspective and was divided into a few areas in a lateral symmetry from the center of the egg. At the top, there were the 3 powers represented by 3 buildings with different shapes, next to them were 2 forests of Tulip Jacaranda, the primary source for the production of the biophilic Leno CLT. Following the design of the forests, from the edges to the center in a golden regime of decrease, a sequence of buildings made of biophilic Leno CLT, up to hundreds of meters high of so-called neo feudal Japanese architecture. Each floor of each building containing a single-family and a multi-family growing area. Each building acts as a small fiefdom, where each moderator contributes with their crops, and on the top floor meetings take place with the feudal lord, who is the building's liquidator. The liquidator plays an important role in organizing crop rotation, food distribution, and markets among the neo-fiefdoms. Outside, large pipelines capture the water from each of the floors, draining all the excess flow and gray water, taking it to the next floor and nourishing the crops. On the facades, large skins of transparent glass that capture the sun's energy, to move not only the city, but others as well. In the center of the city, two large forests and a large water mirror where the city's water reserve was kept. Still on the edges, after the buildings, a sequence of houses in the shape of small eggs, with 3 typologies, one for each family configuration. Where would be the intersection of the residences, a large port and 3 large buildings, where all the major events of the city take place, in its sequence several stores in the shape of a dripping drop in a radial regime. The entire city has a defense mechanism in case of incidents. The ground opens up, swallowing all the buildings, leaving only a large plateau that if swept away, causes no damage. As much as the NE (New Earth) people subjugated the residents of the little eggs, they needed them. The little eggs were used as solar energy farms, something that made them more environmentally friendly than the NE people, and in a way, a necessary evil. These little eggs, as much as they were in some ways backward, still had contemporary organizations, such as streets, squares and courts, they lived as if they were still in 2022, they watched TV, listened to the radio, their cell phones were basic, just for general communications. In one part of this city our story begins. On the seventh street, the seventh block, the seventh block, Jessica arrived after a long day of work in the community garden. With the heat and the enthusiasm of having done for another day a good deed for the collective, Jessica, pouring joy into the house, looked for her mother who was in the kitchen reading the news of the day: -Hey, Mom! How was your day? -Hi, my daughter, it was good, and yours? -Ah, Mom, it was great! And what's new? -Jessica, can you believe it? -What's that, mom? Taking off her glasses and squeezing her eyes to read, her mother said: -It says here "The great leader Hideki Kazuki seeks help for severe insomnia", if you believe that? That bastard who fills people with poison can't even help himself, and he still wants us to believe all that crap! Jessica laughed and then said: -It's each one of them, isn't it? -The other day it appeared the news "Research shows that joy bombs can take control over the decisions of those affected", they are taking away the freedom of the people and nobody does anything! -There are people who like to be cheated. That's the price you pay for trying to run away from your problems... Putting on her glasses again, Jessica's mother said: -These glasses here are horrible! These so-called "intelligent lenses" are horrible, look at them! She said, showing the blurred lenses of her glasses. Jessica, with her usual irreverent tone, said: -This is what you get for not using the Israeli eye drops.... -Look, you don't get started! I'm already around you with your little jokes... Still laughing at her mother, Jessica went to her room, threw her backpack on the side of her bed, took off her sneakers and jumped on her back on her bed. Closing her eyes she took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, remembering all the work she had done that day, she felt rested with herself, it was the seventh day of the week. There were no weekends in the ovines, every day was a day to work, after all taking care of an organic plantation is hard work and pests don't wait for Monday to devastate everything. Every day, that young dreamer woke up at 5 in the morning, combed her long curly hair, put on her favorite overalls, her yellow galoshes made of latex, and went to the vegetable garden. She would work there during the morning and in the afternoon she would go to the so-called "Collective Instruction" or "CI". Making a parallel with the past you live in, it would be a kind of school without pre-defined classes. The same teachings were given to everyone, something that could only be done thanks to the small amount of students compared to those in the big cities. Jessica was a Nisei, the daughter of a Brazilian man and a Japanese woman (her mother). Her father had long since passed away during the construction of the AT (Arashi Tokyo), yet she kept good memories of her tender time through his presence. The next day, as usual, Jessica got up early, stretched, got ready and went to work another day. While she was eating her breakfast, her mother was watching television. Jessica wasn't even paying much attention, but something caught her eye. Akira Toriyama, the morning reporter said the following words: - Now news about the great NE leader, Hideki Kazuki. At a press conference, Hideki stated that he is suffering from severe insomnia and that he will open up jobs for psychologists, psychiatrists, and whoever else can help him solve the problem. According to him, "This is an emergency measure from a desperate man, I hope you understand." Hearing that, Jessica felt compassion for that man. They had their differences, but he really seemed to need help. However, Jessica just thought "Let's hope he finds someone who can help him" and continued eating her breakfast cereal. Her mother, on the other hand, did not let the situation go unnoticed: - Guys, I feel sorry for this man, how could he. The guy has everything one could possibly have and yet he is so sad. Jessica just nodded, still feeling sorry for him. She finished eating, got her things, said goodbye to her mother, and went to the garden to work. Once there, she put her backpack away in the closet, fastened her hair, rolled up her sleeves and picked up her hoe. She needed to prepare the ground for planting new seeds in Mrs. Kimiko Yamamoto's apartment. Being an old lady, she had stopped taking care of her plantation for a while. To do this she first had to remove as many roots and weeds as possible that had grown there. After arriving at the thirty-third floor, she greeted Mrs. Kimiko, put on headphones and put on the new episode of her favorite podcast, which was called "The Grid of Lies". Jessica had always found the name a bit awkward, but she liked the way the hosts approached the subjects. She spent that entire morning plowing the earth and wondering about the reasons for such distress in that man. Everyone knew him as a great leader, a proclaimer of peace. How sad it must have been, to bring peace to so many and not himself. Continues...