r/ImaginaryFuturism

Original Oil Painting by Ken Berman, Artist

CCB is an artifact from my mythic‑tech universe — a cubist reconstruction of mechanical anatomy. Where Picasso rearranged faces; I rearrange engineered geometry.

Every STEM begins as a fractured machine: rods, pistons, joints, and planes pulled out of alignment and reassembled into a new logic. CCB is one of those early forms, a device that feels like it remembers something, even if its function is lost.

This is one of many STEMs that are part of a my ongoing 35+ year archive that dovetails into my upcoming book series currently on Royal Road called The Code 'X' Chronicles.

Hi everyone,

I recently released a trailer for Silkgrove, a cozy open-world adventure RPG I've been working on, and I wanted to share some of the worldbuilding behind it because it's probably the part of the project I've spent the most time thinking about, from making some early paintings (which you see in the trailer intro) to building Silkgrove around it.

The world of Silkgrove began with a simple question: what happens years after humanity survives its apocalypse?

In Silkgrove, humanity once fought a devastating war against machines. The war ended long ago. Most of the people who fought it are gone. Most of the knowledge has been lost, but still a few remain in the old machines. Communities rebuilt, farms and towns returned, and life became peaceful again.

But remnants of the old world still remain everywhere.

Found this pinned to a rusted checkpoint gate outside Green Valley.

STEM HQ has officially issued a bounty on a rogue BOT designated “Bucktooth Kenny.”
Charges include:

• unauthorized activity
• interference with STEM operations
• unstable core behavior
• general menace‑to‑machinery

Locals say he’s been spotted carrying a wrench and taunting enforcement drones.
STEM wants him neutralized.
The BOTs… don’t seem particularly worried.

Posting this here for anyone who enjoys in‑universe documents and worldbuilding ephemera.
More of these notices have been circulating — looks like Kenny isn’t the only one on STEM’s list.

If anyone else has “leaked” STEM files, feel free to add them.

At Existential Hope, we made an animated short imagining a 2035 where AI has radically transformed the world for the better: people work three days a week, AI synthesizes citizen input for policy, and a government AI auditor’s job is to make sure no community gets left out of the process.

This is a frame from the short, showing the AI auditor taking a maglev train to meet a community partner to complement the AI’s policy recommendations. Full film here if you’re curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Besh6Xad5HU.