Writing Future Scenario:
Platform Desert II

The video shows a future scenario about work and life in 2040. The video is based on the scenario from previous work Writing future scenario—Platform Desert I (2019).

In 2040, Platform Desert becomes a standard for a new working environment. People have unstable jobs and live a life controlled by the Platform Desert. Inside the Platform Desert, people endlessly repeat labor that they do not know purposes. Platforms over-impact people, leading people to have an automated consciousness that does not think by themselves. People have a fear that their mind is being automated. The protagonist tries to counter this situation. He creates a new program using BCI (Brain-Computer Interface). The program reads and saves numerous thoughts of the user and provides them to the user visually. It helps users restore the subjectivity of their minds.

The video tracks our fears for the future and imagines if we can cope with technology without being unilaterally dominated. Also, the story deals with the technology’s threat to human subjectivity and the struggle for autonomy.

The story is based on the philosophy of Lao-Tzu, who emphasizes that everything is constantly changing so we need to accept changes and continuously respond to them. In the video, the im- ages of nature, such as desert and water, metaphorize the future world, driven by technology, to nature. In the video, nature is represented as an immutable construct of worlds even in the future. It has worldviews of animism that assert nature which beyond human time.

The images of the video depict the conflict between nature and technology. The video is created by combining digital image animation with fictional nature environments made by 3D rendering. The video contains promotional videos from technology companies such as Neuralink.