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2027 A World Without People
The future does not arrive all at once. It becomes useful first.
On New Year's Day 2027, a London executive discovers that an AI system has completed in hours work that normally takes a team days. It is useful, imperfect, and impossible to ignore.
The premise
What if the most important change in artificial intelligence is not when it becomes human, but when it becomes useful enough?
A system saves time. A recommendation makes sense. A difficult task becomes manageable. In the moment, each decision seems reasonable. People make room for something that helps, then discover that the room they have made changes the choices available to them.
2027: A World Without People begins with useful, imperfect systems and follows the people learning to live around them. The consequences accumulate through work, relationships, and institutions. No sudden transformation settles the question for everyone. Human adaptation is slower, less orderly, and more personal than the technology entering ordinary life.
Five fault lines
Useful technology. Human decisions.
Human stakes
The technology moves quickly. The people cannot.
Careers, families, friendships, institutions, and responsibilities are reshaped by systems that keep becoming more useful. The question is rarely whether the technology works. It is what people do once it does.
Technology creates the pressure. People carry the story.
Published in Serbia
2027. SVET BEZ LJUDI
Roman Ivana Jankovića
Vukotić Media · 2026
The Serbian edition of 2027: A World Without People was published by Vukotić Media in 2026 as 2027. Svet bez ljudi.
Research-grounded fiction
A fictional world built close to the real one.
Research sets the constraints. Fiction asks what people do inside them.
The novel is fiction. Its technological and institutional world is grounded in contemporary research on AI capability, work, synthetic media, persuasion, scientific discovery, AI-assisted AI research, and control.
Research defines what the fictional world must respect. It does not turn the novel into a forecast.
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