The story so far is that it is good, it will be better. This does not correspond to the experiences of the majority of inhabitants of the world. If it is so good, then why is it so bad?

In 2014, Crimea jumped two hours ahead to Moscow time in a fraction of a second. In 2021, Texas measured pregnancy in hours. Watching futures films through the heat, I could hear my neighbors discussing being express kidnapped in Mexico: we live intertwined with more scale than we can grasp.

Aquapolis was 15,000 tons of metaphor used to impose an idea of what adapting to the future should look like. A $550 million floating city prototype, a Houston high school funk band, and the question of what actually endures from our grandest visions of the future.