San Francisco's Bay Bridge has been closed to traffic and colonized by squatters who build a self-governing community on the span. The bridge becomes an autonomous zone of creativity and survival outside corporate control. A pair of AR glasses containing dangerous data draws corporate enforcers into this precarious haven. The story explores how abandoned infrastructure becomes contested space between corporate power and grassroots community.
Relevant to squatter movements, autonomous zones, the value of data, and augmented reality as surveillance or liberation.
Domains: Governance and Political SystemsEconomics and Resource AllocationCommunication and Information Technology
Scenario Types: Thought experiment / What-if
Outcomes: Ambiguous / Mixed