For millennia, cultures have built monumental structures to represent themselves. These structures inspire profound, personal experiences that transcend mere aesthetics. Monuments have power.
Events in our fiction are synthetic, but the emotional response is real. Resulting belief and behaviour change… the rippling cultural effects are real. AI taps into this powerful phenomenon, crafting Monuments from code instead of metal and stone.
With direct access to our senses through Extended Reality (XR), AI makes us revere synthetic structures, just as much as human-made ones.
Some witness the appearance of a Monument. Pilgrimages are made. We study them, photograph them, sell them, forget them. They become part of who were are.