„With or Without You“ is a playful web based project, imagining utopian / dystopian life scenarios with or without technology.
Using the model of a decision tree, you are here occupying the position typically taken by machines – navigating complex possibilities through a clear structure to foresee final outcome. Within this story built from binary decisions, you may ask yourself how much choice exists at all within a binary decision? As we lose middle ground, potential futures seem to be reduced towards either a complete embrace or complete refusal of technology.
The challenge is – how do we retain our humanity and agency within the context of technology. The scenarios may develop into utopias or dystopias depending on the point of observation. Maybe space, time, and personal perspectives tend to give us a negative or positive orientation.
Can we find a middle ground in between the binary? Is there any possibility for atopia?