Meg is a wealthy businesswoman who seeks shelter in her luxury bunker. She watches in horror as her home and businesses are destroyed. Nabo is a young man addicted to virtual reality gaming who gets trapped in an abandoned gas station during the storm. Carlos is an astronaut who volunteers to search for survivors.

The storm causes widespread destruction - knocking down buildings, uprooting infrastructure, flooding neighborhoods, and killing many people. With power and internet knocked out, survivors struggle to get food, water, and medical aid. Meg, Nabo, Carlos and others try to find safety as the unrelenting storm rages on for days.

A VR where everything is 5% better than in real life.

Augmented reality

Canal links

Foldables (advanced mobile devices)

Ballet bots (humanoid robot servants)

Lutin bots (another type of robot servant)

Stretcher bots 

Blimp drones

Rocket travel

Autono-cabs (self-driving taxis)

Stasis beds

Magnetic resonance pain relief devices

Bio-printing stem cells for skin regeneration 

The Sims 24 video game with advanced AI

Peep's link data collection network

Emergency Operations Centers

Underground luxury bunkers

Robot arms for skin care

Wall-sized displays

Food technologies like shroom-caf and yeast grown eggs

CCTV surveillance systems

Weave roads (advanced road technology)

Neighborhood Complex buildings with survival bunkers

emerging tech, eco-tech, apocalypse, survival, disruptive, science, climate, future, short, solarpunk, post-apocalyptic, predictions, futurology, futurism, scifi, sci-fi, technology, tech, black mirror, skepticism, space, permaculture, robotics, inventions, advancements, exploration, singularity, speculative.

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. 

This is Episode 50 of the podcast "In 20xx Scifi and Futurism." The companion site is https://in20xx.com where you can find a timeline of the future, descriptions of future development, and printed fiction.

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.

Copyright © Cy Porter 2021. All rights reserved.