Echos of Industry
What is Eoi?
Echos of Industry is a collaborative, open-source project to collect and catalogue snippets from our future. We accept submissions of stories, diaries, photographs, workplace documents, drawings/media, writings, and anything in between and beyond, to make them available to the public.
What is our future?
If you've noticed the mention of Factories, to the exclusion of all other forms of work, housing, recreation, architecture, etc, you are already aware of what our future holds. There was/is no intention to focus on Factories as a point of interest. This project has always been about archiving any-and-all documentation of the future, and that is a promise we have kept. The Factory is a constant fixation in all evidence and ephemera of the future because of one simple, inescapable reason - our future is confined entirely to Factories. Through exhaustive and continued research into our future, we have never once encountered a single piece of evidence that didn't take place exclusively inside of a Factory. Though we, nor anyone to our knowledge, has ever had direct communication with the Future, we have been able to piece together quite a lot of information from context and description. Here is what we know: • The time frame is unclear, but somewhere starting in the 33rd century. Some documentation is from much farther into the future, but none so far is sooner. • The Earth is entirely, and without exception, covered in Factory buildings. The dimensions of the buildings seem to be a square around 6 stories tall, with each story being 15-20ft tall - making the total height approximately 90-120ft and, by extension, the entire square building's dimensions. These buildings (typically) have no windows. The Factories are around 1 mile apart from one another in each direction in a grid-like structure. Too many factors proclude one from making an accurate estimate for how many factories exist, but signs indicate that they even span dense forests, deserts, and even large bodies of water. • The following variables are situational and follow no dicernable pattern or reasoning: what is produced inside, number of workers, whether there is a management force, whether one-or-more workers are robotic/AI (including management), internal design, working/eating/living conditions, etc.
