NEEDED+
NEEDED PLUS — Issue 01
Issue 01Publishing
Enter the world
2020 — 2047

Technology changes the world. People remain its meaning.

2047

A world that no longer needs us

Artificial intelligence neither destroyed humanity nor seized power. It simply turned out to be faster, cheaper and more effective.

World
The cast

Six people

An engineer with no work, a student with a plan, a professor with a suspicion, a founder with a dream — and two who remember how it used to be.

All characters
The central question

What is left for a person?

What makes a person necessary once the need for their labour is gone?

Corporations

Who built this future

The public identity of the companies that built this future — what they show the world.

Corporations
Issues

The issues

Places

A city that runs itself

But is that really so — and has the world become any better?

Places
Music

The sound of it

Character themes, corporate ambient, and the Volna broadcast playing in every shuttle.

Music