February 2027 Marcus sat at his home office desk in a button-up shirt and slacks, laptop open, spreadsheet of job applications in one tab, LinkedIn in another. Through the closed door, he could hear NPR playing on their Alexa in the kitchen. He’d applied to forty-seven jobs since January.
August, 2030. Austin, Texas The video call on the laptop connected at 4:47 PM, seven minutes later than scheduled. Marcus was still in his work clothes. He wore Carhartt pants with dust ground into the knees, Timberland boots unlaced and caked with drywall powder, a company shirt that smelled
We’re living through a phase shift. The tools that helped you do your job last year might take your job next year. I kept looking for stories about what that feels like but all I found were stories about dystopian collapse, or Silicon-Valley techno-utopian hype. There wasn’t anything
Between January 2025 and December 2030, I conducted 30,247 interviews documenting the human-AI transition. This site represents twenty-three of those conversations. I was commissioned to record what happened during those five years. But as I compiled the testimonies, I realized that simply storing the data wasn't enough.