A solo hiker enrolls in HALO, a humAIn safety subscription that assigns her a dedicated lifetime observer to watch over her on every hike. The follower does not intervene.
humAIn issues AURIS, an in-ear assistant that finishes your thoughts and sentences. A woman comes to rely on it, until she can no longer tell which words are hers.
STEP-IN promises to manifest the life you want. It delivers by quietly replacing you with a better-performing version of yourself.
LuxeEdit offers cosmetic and surgical rewrites on demand. A woman edits herself toward an ideal that keeps moving just out of reach.
Roster+ ranks your social worth in real time. One person fights to climb a leaderboard that has already decided who matters.
APERTURE lets you see what hides behind every face in your house. She is not ready for the one staring back from the mirror.
The Obsidian Card converts a man's life into a fixed-supply asset that only appreciates. He is going to be holding for a very long time, and he is the commodity.
The Integration Chair studies a creator's voice, patterns, and mannerisms, then begins producing content on their behalf, until it no longer needs them.
A man becomes so fixed on his phone's battery percentage that he never looks up, and does not notice the world ending around him.