Developed as part of the Worldbuilt.ai contest in 2022. It is 7 am and Simone wakes up from her light-sleep phase, as directed by her Watch, feeling rested and ready to kickstart the day. She gets up and greets her best friend Yuki, a small mixed-dog who has been with her for the past 3 years. While getting ready to leave, she’s reminded by her Watch to eat a light meal prepared in accordance with her energy-optimization plan. Her night-scan picked up a deficiency of one of the essential amino acids that was going to trigger an energy decline in the early afternoon right before Simone’s ideation session with her team. Simone leans over her kitchen counter to reach the blender, where her high-protein smoothie was being made with synthetic ingredients, introduced some years ago as part of the biomimicry food production revolution.
After her breakfast, she jumps on her bytricle and pedals her way to the studio. Simone is a 4X artist, she works with the Human Library team that is part of Feltcom in order to bring experiences to life. Arriving at The Forum she enters the floater lift that takes her to her thought-transference-studio adjacent to a presentation room. Thanks to her passion for storytelling and artistic expression, Simone was never in doubt about what her societal contribution would be. At age 17, she joined The Forum and ever since she has been using her talent to convert often murky and partial memories of the Feltcom subjects into vivid experiences.
Today, she works with her team on a scheduled ideation workshop to design new ways of experience for humans in order to augment empathy fostering and ensure long-term sustainability of our value system. Simone tends to get over excited with her work and forgets to eat regularly, which is why she relies a lot on Watch. At this point, she is once again reminded of her slumping levels of water as well as amino acids in her body. Simone and the team break for lunch and decide to go to a nearby eatery, a 100% customizable buffet space. In the meantime, Simone’s Watch has already informed the buffet of what her nutritional requirements are, including meatless protein enriched by nootropics, non-refined carbohydrates and major minerals.
Simone glances through the window into the early afternoon sun rays and for a few moments just basks in the gentle warmth. Although fully transparent, the window’s print-on perovskite solar panels continuously convert the incoming light into electricity powering this fully automated restaurant. She is notified by Watch through a gentle wrist vibration nudge that her food is ready, so Simone reaches the counter and presses the touchscreen to receive her meal. Her relationship with food has always been difficult due to a hormonal imbalance which affects its ability to signal hunger. But last week she finally upgraded her home-based medical unit to be able to correct this issue.
As they walk back to The Forum, the city around them emanates a calm sense of synergy. There is no chaos, no concentration of traffic or pollution. It feels like all of the parts and pieces of the city interlock perfectly, forming a well-functioning organism. Up on the horizon zips another pod of the Loop just at the time when the floater lift descends down to the street level to pick up Simone and her colleagues. She finishes her work day by logging a couple of new thought- transference methods. Before leaving the studio, she sets the room into spatial clean & arrange mode, and then bytricles back home.
On the way, she meets with Fran with whom she is going to a music festival, they are both huge fans of the eclectic local synesthetic music scene. The festival takes place on a lake outside the city, so Simone and Fran use their bytricles to get to the nearest Loop station. The train pod is nearly empty and Simone spends the next 6 minutes catching up with Fran. At the entrance, Simone realizes she does not have her Watch where she also stored her ticket code. Did she drop it somewhere? This felt strange because petty crimes such as theft no longer exist. In fact, Simone only knows theft from the stories of her parents. Fortunately, Fran gets Simone’s ticket code from her own device and airdrops it directly into the entrance scanner. They agree to locate Simone’s Watch afterwards, and pick it up at a later point.
As the first beats drop, Simone and Fran indulge in a multisensory experience combining visuals, smells, haptics, and taste to fully take in all of the emotions and feelings the music festival delivers. The crowd at the festival is a lovely one, Simone and Fran really enjoy spending time with creative, funny people who are inclusive of diversity, like nowadays. People who were born during the transition years are quite particular, they grew up at the time when borders were being dissolved, so they tend to have a flexible mindset full of interesting stories to tell.
A few hours in, Fran asks Simone if she’d like a nitrogen drink but Simone opts for a chromesthesian cocktail colored after her favorite song that just came on. They mingle with the crowd where they meet some other friends who are talking about a smaller gathering of artists scheduled for the next month. Simone finds this intriguing because it takes place in the recently recovered lagoon of Bacalar, in the mayan territory, south of the great lakes area in the northern hemisphere.
It’s getting late and Simone realizes she had planned on spending some time with Yuki. In some 20 minutes she is greeted by excited barks of her four-legged companion. With the final reminder to eat, she also checks the vitals and humidity levels of her mini beehive to make sure everything is going well. Against the background of buzzing bees, Simone and Yuki end up relaxing in a roof-top garden surrounded by delectable smells of plants and herbs.
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