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.

When people in space are cut off from Earth an imbalance of owner vs. customers comes to a breaking point. The people in space believe no one is left alive on Earth. As far as they know, the (around) 12,000 in space is all that's left of humanity.

Those living on and near the moon form Luna Nation. Space refugees scattered near Earth must find a way to insure a future for themselves and their children.

AI that in many ways exceed human intelligence play a part in a skirmish for resources. What does it take to outsmart an AI that can make you think you're having a video call with a co-conspirator when it's the AI you are talking to?

An finally, if AI can make a six part miniseries staring Drew Barrymore and Crispin Glover about using DNA banks to spawn a new human race, what parts would the two actors play?

Here's a list of the technology mentioned in the story:

1. Orbital stations and space habitats

2. Micro-gravity adapting robots (e.g., vacuum bots)

3. Smart glass walls

4. Satellite cameras

5. AI assistants (e.g., Butler AI)

6. Augmented Reality (AR) glasses

7. Canal links (brain-computer interfaces)

8. Virtual Reality (VR) equipment

9. Life support systems for space

10. Automated mining and manufacturing in space

11. Fusion-powered spaceships

12. Electric thrusters for spacecraft

13. Legacy tracking systems for spacecraft

14. Ejection systems for spacecraft

15. Motion stabilizers for space suits

16. Emergency beacons in space suits

17. Artificial wombs

18. DNA banks

19. Brain scanning and digital copying technology

20. Robots capable of performing complex tasks

21. Centrifuges for simulating gravity

22. Terraforming technology (theoretical, for Venus)

23. Advanced medical automation

24. Custom cell cultivators

25. Organ printing technology

26. Stasis technology for long space journeys

27. Laser tight-beam communication

28. Rockets and missiles (mentioned as being disabled)

29. Closed-circuit TVs in spacecraft

30. Space construction vehicles (e.g., "spider")

31. Delivery cruisers

32. Research ships

33. Hologram-producing screens

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 56 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.