This is a faux Keith Haring image, created in 2027 using artificial intelligence, depicting consumerism as a modern form of religion. The lucky cat becomes an idol in a commercial temple, while the surrounding figures worship shopping, status, and material success.

This imagined vision of Maui, Hawaii contrasts the island’s extraordinary natural beauty with a radically transformed future. Hawaii’s unique landscape has long attracted tech billionaires, some bringing with them ambitions and ideas as extreme as the setting is beautiful.

Lake Balaton, the largest lake in Central Europe, is slowly receding in this imagined future under the pressure of climate change. Fishermen can still cast their lines for now — but where others see a drying lakebed, an extreme-minded real estate developer already sees the plots of Central Europe’s next metropolis.