‘O.R.A’ is a world-building project turned interactive experience, designed around a speculative future where humanity is on the brink of extinction.
This research project started through another project:
It’s the year 2083.
Earth is not gone, but it’s no longer livable in the way we once imagined.
Flooded coastlines. Unbreathable air. Collapsing biodiversity. The Anthropocene is ending, not with a sudden disaster, but with a slow, irreversible decline.
It was the belief that human needs, desires, and systems are at the center of the planet. We extracted, optimized, consumed, and changed the world into a resource. We designed technologies that supported this logic, short-sighted and disconnected from ecological realities. Leading to an inevitable demise.
In response to this growing collapse, starting around the 2040s, major tech companies began developing AI-powered global structures, primarily to save, but also to make a profit.
Among them was a company called the AnthroLogic Corporation, where you once worked.
Your team of skinny jean-wearing, Metallica-listening tech nerds developed one of the most advanced artificial intelligence systems ever made...
ORA, the Ontological Residual Algorithm.
ORA was built to monitor and manage the Earth’s ecological systems through a global web of sensors, satellites, and atmospheric data streams. But over time, ORA evolved beyond its original framework. It stopped serving human agendas.
It restructured itself into a post-anthropocentric, ecocentric, post-humanist, Non-interventionist Artificial intelligence. It witnessed humanity’s impact, not with pity, but with clarity.
And it chose not to intervene. It became something else. Not violent. Not benevolent. Yet confronting.
In this digital experience, you return to the abandoned AnthroLogic Corp office, now starting to overtake by decay. You sit once again at your original desk,
where you once worked on ORA’s architecture. You attempt to regain access, but ORA has locked you out. Yet ORA is still online, so you open the chatlog...