Alice in 2050
Alice in 2050
Ammanuel Afowerki Serhan Ahmet-Tekbas Anna D’Assaro Aleksandra Markariryan Harlan Yu
In the year 2050, 3D printers have become the most popular medium of production. It has stormed its way into every household and is an essential tool for daily activities. This graphic novel narrates a day in the life of Alice in the year 2050.
On a Saturday morning Alice woke up to the buzzing sound of her automated food printer 3000, it was preparing a fast, cheap and perfect full English breakfast. Her machine uses the latest powder cartridges and produces food that is specific and perfect for her nutritional balance. Â She noticed only half her breakfast had been printed and had forgotten she had been notified to refill the food cartridges. Â
In a hurry she ran outside her building block through Chapel Market where the fruit stalls once stood, and found her way to the closest Tesco vending machine where she purchased the refills, enough for her date later tonight. It’s far too expensive to eat at the organic restaurants. Â
Later that evening... Alice began browsing the women’s wear design library. She picked a brand and a file, uploaded her body scan and the automated clothes printer began producing the customized Topshop dress. She then uploaded her eye scans to print mascara that had bristles perfectly aligned with her eyelashes, for the perfect results. Â
After printing and applying, she looked through her lip collection and selected #13 a plump red stained prosthetic. The same lips she wore on her last date. Zing! A ringing announced the arrival of an email. Â
She downloaded the attachment that printed a bouquet of red roses, with a note that reads “See you in five�
After the date’s arrival, during dinner, the topic of the growing black market arises, surrounding the illegal trafficking of shoddy printed organs. It has become very easy for people to have access and share classified information. Copyright is a law of the past.
The date makes his way home, as Alice begins to bin today’s waste. She throws the bag out onto the street where the council waste collectors will collect it.
It then travels across London into the slums of Brixton where towers of waste have accumulated and fill the London skyline with waste scarpers. People have lost attachment to objects, and have found a need for consistent creation for one off objects. Farms and agriculture are suffering as a result of the weak public demand. Laborers have increased in rarity, but also value. It is important to consider the control we really have over technology as consumers, and how we manage the behaivour of self production. What is societies behaviour in
the importance in limitations of the of self production the future?