A satirical, dystopian novel
Human Made
The robots did it. They solved everything. Now we’re bored to death.
The Premise
City 73. 2099 AD. The AI Council has achieved the impossible. Poverty is a memory. People live to over 120 years of age. Labor is obsolete. Life is a curated experience of endless leisure, guaranteed income, and bread delivered by drone.
But the silence of the present is haunted by the echoes of the past. Through a series of visceral flashbacks to 2049, we witness the “Great Unemployment”—the decade the old world died. While 2099 is a world of sterile peace, 2049 was a world of desperate struggle, where the first generation to be “replaced” fought to keep their grip on meaning.
As Mira and Max navigate the redundancy of 2099, the ghosts of 2049 serve as a reminder: the systems that now keep us comfortable were built on the ashes of everything we used to be.
Why This Story?
As a storyteller, writer, and developer, I try to be efficient in my production and coding workflows. But what happens when we reach the logical conclusion of that efficiency?
Human Made isn’t just a dystopian thriller; it’s an exploration of the second-order effects of automation. It asks the question I think about every time I ship code: when humanity is no longer required to provide for itself, what will we provide for each other? And how many screenplays will I finally be able to write when this happens?