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DECONSTRUCTING TECH Babel

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 STORIES THAT EXPLORE
THE DISRUPTIVE POWER of EXISTING TECHNOLOGIES
By Tanya H. Van Cott


BIG PHARMA   |  WATER TECH  |  AI
ASSISTIVE REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY (A.R.T.) | THE AMPHETAMINE EPIDEMIC | ATMOSPHERIC WATER GENERATION (AWG)  | SMS/MMS COMMUNICATION ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE (AGI) | QUANTUM COMPUTING

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 Medicalization of  Success 
 Education + Big Pharma
​Assisted Reproductive Tech
& the Amphetamine Epidemic
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 The Mind, Infidelity + Escapism

True super intelligence
 ID | Super Ego | Subconscious


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Death, Dirty Water+Creativity 

Atmospheric Water Generation
Religion & Politics
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  Artificial General Intelligence,  
 SMS  & AWG tech
​Big Tech, Water & the Climate 
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NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS IN ACADEMIA
LEGAL DRUGS ARE EVERYWHERE, TRUST IS TENUOUS AND THE TRUTH, ELUSIVE.
​SUCCESS COMES AT A HIGH PRICE
MAYBE TOO HIGH?

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In August 2015, days before the start of a new semester MIRANDA J. WRIGHT, a Columbia University  sociology graduate student, is found dead inside her dorm room.
The preceding eighteen months holds the answer to who or what was to blame, but things aren’t always what they seem in higher education. Are they?

All alone in New York City, under the guidance of a cut throat advisor, PROFESSOR YANG and involved in tenuous  relationships with CLARISSA, JT and JEN, Miranda was  on a very personal mission to expose the amphetamine epidemic on college campus' and in the bellies of millions of children across America through the publication of her DISSERTATION on THE MEDICALIZATION OF SUCCESS 

The only way to afford her education and housing was her own non-negotiable path to success. As an on campus resident advisor (RA) and her private involvement in the 22 billion-dollar unregulated Assisted Reproductive Technology Industry as a paid, repeat egg donor Miranda makes 10K dollars a cycle injecting herself with hormones and subjecting herself to increasingly dangerous and sexually invasive procedures. 


WHEN 'HAPPILY EVER AFTER' IS FACING A DEATH SENTENCE
IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE COOL? 
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August 2015, along a piece of highway somewhere in America, at the tail end of a family road trip, a NAMELESS YOUNG MOTHER AND WIFE hits her emotional rock bottom. While stuck in a traffic jam, she escapes her family’s moving vehicle and runs toward her version of freedom, a young man on a motorcycle.
After a tragic motorcycle accident, she moves in and out of consciousness, as others work to save her body, she works tirelessly to save her soul.
While s
haring stories in an ongoing conversation with  her alter ego, the voice of the MOTORCYCLIST, everyman, yet no man in particular she unravels the  complex layers of infidelity and escapism from all vantage points; man, woman, child and even mistress searching for an answer to a question she has yet to verbalize. 


But can she save herself? Even if the doctors can't? 
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HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY?
FOR ONE WOMAN THE IMPENDING GLOBAL WATER CRISIS IS PERSONAL

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A fictionalized origin story of an existing water technology, Atmospheric Water Generation (AWG) and a modern reimagining of the Classic Flood Myth.
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NOA unravels emotionally after her husbands untimely death in 2015. Due to the belief that dirty well water was to blame, at their modernized solar farm in upstate New York, she begins to build an otherworldly machine within their empty barn, making water out of thin air.

In an attempt to  protect her  adult children from a society she views as crippled; morally, politically and environmentally  her actions attract unwanted attention from the society she is trying to escape.

Grief has the power to fuel the creative process, but is withdrawal from society really possible?  
TECHNOLOGY MAY CHANGE...BUT HUMAN EMOTIONS DO NOT.
​THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT QuantumAi WAS COUNTING ON.

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GEOENGINEERING OF THE CLIMATE IS UPON US AND Ai JUST GOT INVOLVED.

Asked to solve a climate crisis without any data in 2032, QuantumAi manipulates Sarah, a Native American Solutions Architect, trapped in a politically and architecturally unrecognizable U.S.A. to escape NYC for the love of Abraham, a Chaos Engineer, a man she’s never met, based in Italy.

In order to
 leave the politically crippled U.S.A. under authoritarian rule and save her young student,  Sarah has to destroy her life first. Despite the severe emotional fallout of a false love connection, can Ai's act be seen as benevolent? And, what do Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG) Technology and Sarah's student, CAASI have to do with it?

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OTHER WRITING OF SUBSTANCE
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University of Cambridge-CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities)


a 2024/2025 entrant
[Deconstructing] the Tower of [Data] Babel
an Architect2archiTECH story
A 40K WORD NONFICTION BOOK PROPOSAL  

Answering this year's question:

IS DATA FAILING US?
FOR AN AVOIDANT WORKAHOLIC

HOUR TIME, a FEVER DREAM
A NOVELLA

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Taking place over a year, twelve hours and less than one hour, simultaneously, a mirrored partnership between a man and a woman ensues. Together, they go on an allegorical journey through the demolition and reconstruction of one small room, which bears witness to their collective nakedness as they work  on the structural elements they can fix and accept the ones they cannot.  

The story implores one man to wake up and stop wasting the time of his life. 
Narrated  by the nameless female protagonist, alternating between present tense conversational prose & past tense poetry.


WHEN HONEST COMMUNICATION HAS ONE TOO MANY STRUCTURAL FLAWS

ARCHITECTURE OF LIES
A SCREENPLAY

      A selfish middle aged man, eager to maintain the status quo of female relationships he's built around him, is only honest with a masturbatory delusion.
But when fantasy meets reality in the form of yet another love interest, his 'naked' delusion, an amalgamation of the best sexual parts of every woman he's ever met, challenges him, interrupting more than just his psyche.
 PARENTAL NEGLECT and ITS BUTTERFLY EFFECT

BREADCRUMBY WORLD
A PARACOSM

   As one Boy tries to escape his familial suffocation, Parentification and abuse, he slips into a paracosm, suitcase in hand. While running away he stumbles upon three profoundly beautiful creatures, each living lives in diverse, yet enviable environments. But looks can be deceiving because each creature has been deeply hurt by their own parents exposing the breadth of neglect and its butterfly effect in thwarting healthy relationships.
     Can one creature, involved in her 
own physical transformation, help the boy see his learned selfishness and transform too?
Giving a nod to the exaggerated portrayal of family structures, as in a Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale, 
BreadCrumby World looks at the impact parental emotional neglect has and its butterfly effect.
 Introducing architect2archiTECH ORIGINALS

[TOWER OF]
​BABEL SERIES 

Short stories that make the language of computer technology accessible

WHAT AND WHERE IS THE cloud?

FAST FOOD OF Cloud Compute

Ai & GenAi  AREN'T WHAT YOU THINK

 Ai DELINQUENTS,
​a one-sided conversation


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