Hunted
The lions hunt the visitors.
Everyone expectsVisitors watch the lions.
What if the main attraction at the zoo was you, as a robot deer, trying not to be eaten by lions?
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Proxy Bodies
Who are you when your body is somewhere else?
Capability comes loose from the body.
An exoskeleton, a robot avatar or a remotely controlled machine can change more than the task a person performs. It changes which people can participate and what their participation means.
Pensioners become a military resource. Visitors become animal prey. Reporters enter places through other bodies. A familiar gesture of surrender ceases to mean what it did.
The shared question is what happens when roles, rights, responsibilities and institutions built around human bodies have to adapt to capabilities that no longer stay inside them.
Different worlds.
The same transformation.
Care Home Troopers
Your country needs your gran.
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Docu-bots
The reporter in the war zone isn’t human.
Everyone expectsAI writes the news.
What if the reporter standing in front of an interviewee was a machine? A human journalist could enter a dangerous or remote situation through a telepresence body rather…
Follow how it could happenSpeed of Thought
How do you surrender when you can shoot with your hands up?
Everyone expectsA human remains in control of the weapon.
Guns that aim themselves and fire on a thought, worn on the hip. A raised pair of hands used to prove you couldn’t shoot. Now it proves nothing.
Follow how it could happenGun Dogs
The dog goes in. The cop stays in the car.
Everyone expectsRobot dogs carry guns.
Real dogs still beat robots on stairs, rubble and fences. So the gun goes on a real dog.
Follow how it could happenReal-life Superheroes
Michigan just deputised Batman.
Everyone expectsExoskeletons help people at work.
Advanced armour and physical augmentation go on sale. Wealthy enthusiasts do not all use them for industrial work.
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