Interactive AI City Shows How Daily Life Changes From 1956 to 2050
WindyConfidant · reddit · 2026-10-29
Reddit user WindyConfidant built an interactive web project, 'Maya & the Machines' (ai-world-2050), tracing AI's impact on daily life from 1956 to 2050 through one room and one city. The isometric wireframe city highlights job centers, data centers, AI-triage hospitals and automation-tax protests.
- The 2030s split into three possible futures
- Every forecast cites its source; news updates daily
- Maya, the only colored figure, anchors the narrative on work and wealth
The author invites readers to fact-check the numbers.
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