The young people of HQ survival shelter need power! The suspended weights energy storage is running out of. A team venture up to the surface to explore the downtown high rise holding much needed lab equipment. Grace emulated a Knots Math computer breaking new ground in simulation abilities. A cutting edge of growing food uses a new form of life that is neither plant nor animal. It does grow many times faster than most organisms and can grow some tasty beef. What does the mean popular girl have in store for Lenny. This and much more in the latest episode.

System screens: displays maps of the water recycle system and temperature control floors

Choker of wire and LED lights: wearable lighting accessory

School assist (AR assistant): augmented‐reality helper that relays system data and messages

Medusa net provider: alternative network stack replacing the built‑in assist

Power‐saving mode: software feature to shut off selected lights and reduce energy draw

Cleaning bot: small autonomous robot that rolls along floors to clean marks

AR visors/glasses: wearable displays overlaying digital information on the physical world

VR rigs: virtual‐reality setups used in rec zones and practice rooms

Hand crank charger with flashlight: manual generator and light source for emergency power

Six‑legged crawler bot: palm‑sized robot designed to navigate power conduits

Constructor bot: heavy‑duty robot used to move and assemble large equipment

Electric wire pairs: charged and ground wires providing power to Ogra growth trays

Car batteries: portable power sources repurposed to energize Ogra cultivation systems

Grow trays: container shelves wired for supporting Ogra organisms during development

Ogra organisms: genetically engineered hybrid life‑forms that produce edible “fruits”

Modular cars: vehicles designed for rapid disassembly and reuse of parts

Lock wands: tools that insert locking pins to detach car doors and panels

Robotic lock gloves: exoskeleton gloves that enhance grip, strength, and cable clamping

Pin driver with nano‑wire cartridges: handheld device for installing micro‑hooks in walls

Woven nano‑wire cable (“carb‑cable”): high‑strength guide line for climbing in high winds

Bullet‑proof plates: thin armor sheets stitched between garment layers for protection

Safety harnesses with carabiners: fall‑arrest gear for clipping onto guide cables

Gravity power storage model: digital 3D interface showing weight‑lift energy reserves

Servers: computing racks hosting the colony’s web, VR, and core AI services

Emulated Knots computer: AI environment repurposed to simulate computing based on Knots Math

Medicine printer: device originally for bioprinting drugs, proposed for material fabrication

Condensation tubes and fire hoses: passive water‑harvesting system from humid air

Thorium reactor with molten salt turbine: compact nuclear generator design

Radiation‑shield glass window and monitor: protective viewing port and live data display for reactor

Spectrometer smell sensors: chemical detection fingertips on a bot for biohazard scanning

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.

The companion site is https://in20xx.com

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. This project is speculative fiction. These episodes are not about revealing what will be, but they are to excited the listener's wonder about what may come to pass.

Copyright © Cy Porter 2025. All rights reserved.

Thrive Artificial Super Intelligence raises an individual’s quality of life, guiding each person differently. It understands us better than we do ourselves, helping us achieve lasting and causal happiness. For Thrive, solving hume well-being is simple and easy to figure out. When it may seem to work to improve society as a whole, what it’s really doing is finding the optimal route to bettering the lives of its individual members. It serves each member, not the society.

By controlling the money system people use to buy from the production center, Thrive strives to account for real costs and gains. Participants earn for child raising, community service, and environmental cleanup, while being charged for abuse of commons, pollution, trickery, and steeling. By halting speculative wealth accumulation that fails to generate real value, Thrive keeps resources flowing to productive endeavors.

Members that harm other members can lose their membership. Thrive learns about people and will warn members of difficulties and dangers others pose. Property rights are protected but conditional: homes and land must be used or risk forfeiture. Utilized storage and sites for automation count toward maintaining ownership, but stagnant storage may become commons. These are early days for Thrive. Just how good it makes people’s lives will take years to be seen.

Thrive Artificial Super Intelligence, money-system governance of the production center, child-raising/community-service/environmental-cleanup earnings and charges, VR headset, virtual-reality school environment, wall-mounted display screen, emulated-personality AI teacher, Lutin home-integration and utility-tunnel sealing robot, Lutin Lite bi-bot, insect-trap composter, perma-kittens, recycled-composite printed planks, self-balancing two-wheel carts, cool suits with integrated heat pumps, AR (augmented reality) guidance arrows, black button-size surveillance cameras, duct pipe delivery system, rat trap designs, water filters, air masks, hammock fabrication, crank battery chargers, jars of preserved meat, mushroom farm modules, mycelium-to-yarn converters, bug-net patching tools, genetically engineered microbial cultures, AR info panels, tube-maintenance robots, tube-car transport bots, electric-motor-driven tube cars, static-electric speakers, heat-pumping DIY versus state-of-the-art cool suits, taze jacket, canal-link power system, intelli-cam, AR-wallet, bounty and criminal-record AR cards, med-kiosk dispensing Monarch and antidotes, augmented-reality classroom interface, HoloSurface tabletop interface, haptic-feedback gloves, micro-assembly snake, century battery, subscription-cracking toolkit, micro-machines in sex-doll defenders, step-in cool-box fridge conversion, portable electronics shredder, sled-tray cargo carrier, bio-smelter facility, aeroponics growth rooms, geothermal power plant access, liquid-sunlight nutrient solution, fused 2D composites, micro-matrix materials, smart-latex polymers, self-propelled repair robots, HoloTube holographic display, Stepster legged mobility chair, bone-mount sockets and nerve-to-controller interfaces.

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.

The companion site is https://in20xx.com

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. This project is speculative fiction. These episodes are not about revealing what will be, but they are to excited the listener's wonder about what may come to pass.

Copyright © Cy Porter 2025. All rights reserved.

Amidst this perpetual twilight, new forms of societal organization begin to emerge. Cindy, waking one morning, discovers an invitation to "Open Floor," a virtual space for direct democracy where citizens can vote on issues day and night. Stepping into this digital forum, she finds herself in a shifting circle of avatars, some representing real people, others AI syntheses of ongoing conversations. Debates on constitutions, crime, and surveillance unfold, raising questions about AI governance and the very nature of truth in a world increasingly mediated by technology.

Beyond the digital commons, life in the underground colony thrums with a mixture of innovation and unease. News reports speak of geothermal power plants and advanced home care kits, but also of suicides, overcrowded hospitals, and violent disputes over communal spaces. Misty, a key figure, navigates the complexities of this new world, from inspecting hyper-insulated facilities housing powerful AI to discussing the controversial policy of mandatory schooling with emulated personalities. Personal lives, like Cindy's, are also in flux, with new relationships forming even as old anxieties and suspicions begin to surface.

A.R., Position Avatar, robots, robot baby, V.R., internet, geothermal power plant, home care kits, Assist, construction-bots, cleaner bots, cargo cart, server systems, supercomputer systems, protein computers, Lutin Twos, A.R. visors, pre-computer, A.S.I., graphene protein computers, A.R. glasses, V.R. dots, mics, cameras, emulated personalities, A.I., Lutin bots, A.R. avatar, transparent A.R. presentation board, A.R. note books, droids, unbroken screen, follow cart, my-crete, lift, Open Floor, screen top table, panic fabric, guard dog bots, autono-carts, no-charge kitchens, BritLights, carb-foil, Tribal Net, A.I. relationships, V.R. taste and smell, V.R. rigs, builder bots, cop bots, robot police, platform robot, T.V. wall, food taster pen, seamless screen ceiling, pea size cameras, sensors, automated MIT, emulated personality professors, sun-grade light spaces, electric bike, bipedal bot, many jointed snake robot, bot, light drones, pill, automated restaurant, Q.T. gateway, cyber-deck, canal links, whisper-jet drones, button-size recording devices, V.R. auditorium, virtual gowns, virtual caps, chandeliers of light, movie sphere, sun lamps, taser cloves, head lamp, air mask, link, DNA sniffers, encrypted streaming, Autonomous policing, coin size cameras.

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.

The companion site is https://in20xx.com

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. This project is speculative fiction. These episodes are not about revealing what will be, but they are to excited the listener's wonder about what may come to pass.

Copyright © Cy Porter 2025. All rights reserved.