Your data outlives the world that excused it.
Everyone expects
We preserve the record of our success.
What I found
Tomorrow puts your success in a museum of mistakes.
A future society searches the records for the causes of its collapse. Purchases, flights, professional achievements and ordinary habits become material for a judgement their owners never expected.
AI reconstructs lives from financial and digital traces. The measures of achievement change. People once celebrated are displayed as examples of the old world’s iniquity.
The story follows the gap between a society’s confidence in its values and the uses future people can make of its evidence.
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