Welcome to Our Technate Tomorrow
In a world optimized for harmony, what happens to desire, rebellion, and the soul?
Image: Cracks in the Flow
Our Technate Tomorrow is a speculative fiction series rooted in a real, nearly-forgotten chapter of North American history—the Technocracy Inc. movement of the early 1900’s. Founded by engineers and social scientists, the movement proposed replacing democracy with a scientific system of governance: a Technate, where energy, data, and efficiency—not votes—would steer society.
Though ridiculed and shelved, the movement never vanished. It lingered in the margins of political thought—until now.
In the age of ambient surveillance, predictive algorithms, and emotion-based governance, the ideas of the Technate have not only returned—they’ve quietly arrived.
Why Read Now?
You want to read Our Technate Tomorrow because it doesn’t ask what technology can do—it asks what it will undo in us, if we’re not paying attention.
It’s not a dystopia. It’s a meditation. A slow, lyrical reckoning with a future that feels eerily plausible—not ruled by violence, but by optimization. Not silenced, but softly harmonized. It explores what happens when democracy dissolves not from tyranny but from fatigue, and when artificial intelligence doesn’t take over the world, but takes over your decisions, your dreams, your grief—because you let it.
You should read it if you’ve ever wondered:
What would it feel like to live in a society where grief is categorized and empathy is rationed?
What if your dreams were used to make policy?
What if the greatest danger wasn’t AI sentience, but human surrender?
You should read it if you suspect that:
The biggest threat to freedom isn’t control.
It’s relief from having to choose.
And you should read it if you still believe that something essential about being human can’t be optimized—only witnessed, held, and maybe, in the right moment… remembered.
Let’s begin.
In 2045, the world didn’t burn. It aligned.
No elections. No markets. No nations.
Just Civion — the system.
An omnipresent, AI-led design for living, Civion governs every aspect of existence: it matches citizens to tasks, modulates emotions, distributes resources, and even shapes dreams. Money is gone. Politics, obsolete. In its place: Jouliqs, neural loops, emotional consensus. Society has been optimized for peace, precision, and permanence.
But something is shifting.
Despite the soft touch of neural overlays and the beauty of bio-symbiotic cities, there are cracks in the flow. Buried memories resurface. Grief lingers where joy should be. Dreams distort. And a question pulses beneath the algorithmic calm:
What have we traded for harmony?
Our Technate Tomorrow explores life inside a fully planned, AI-governed civilization. Each short story follows one of five characters navigating the hidden tensions within this post-capitalist, post-political world:
— Mira, the Empath, who sculpts emotions for a living but begins to mourn what’s lost.
— Arun, the Archivist, who dares to preserve forbidden memories of democracy.
— Lian, the Runner, who hacks the dreamstream to reawaken feeling.
— Juno, the Coder, who questions whether Civion should be perfected or undone.
— Dr. Elenor Halgeman, the Historian, who wonders if remembering the past is the most radical act of all.
This isn't a war story. It’s a resonance story. About what remains when systems optimize the mess out of us. About autonomy, memory, and the soul in a world that no longer needs them.
Each story is a portal.
To a character. A crack. A question.
As the series unfolds weekly, we not only want you to read these episodes — but also engage with the content through questions and comments. These conversations will help shape who we invite to our podcast to dive deeper into the tech and philosophy behind the fiction.
Because our future isn’t built only by code.
It’s built by the questions we dare to ask.
Start reading. The system is listening.
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