For four weeks, people around the world watched 65 visions of the future two at a time and answered one question.
Which future do you prefer?
A boy rebuilds his dead mother from her texts, voice, and diary. What wakes up never gives an order. She only asks.
A mock documentary from 2060. Nine people explain how free AI in ordinary hands took apart the systems running the world, and what it cost.
Watch on YouTube →A billionaire's dying gift is a black cube no one can switch on, until a seventeen-year-old rebuilds it on the pattern of a dragonfly's wing.
Watch on YouTube →Beneath the Antarctic ice, humanity finds a Box where decades pass in a day, and it buys civilization the one thing it had lost: time.
Watch on YouTube →After AI ends work and money, the last scarce thing is chosen seriousness. Milo has failed forty-seven callings this year.
Watch on YouTube →Votes came from 1,509 cities across 104 countries, and the trailers drew more than 4.7 million views on YouTube.
Two random trailers appear side by side. You watch, pick the future you prefer, and a new pair follows. Scoring 65 three-minute trailers is a heavy lift. Choosing between two takes seconds, and people answer honestly.
Each choice updates the ratings with an Elo system, the method built to rank chess players. Beating a highly rated trailer counts for more than beating a low one.
There was no way to vote for a single trailer. A film's rating moved only through head-to-head matchups, rising when voters chose it over the one beside it and falling when they didn't. Across hundreds of thousands of choices, the ranking reflects what people preferred, not who brought the biggest crowd.
With prize money on the line, people will try to game it. Our crowdvoting partner, SIV.org, weighed more than a dozen signals to separate genuine preferences from spam and coordinated boosting.
The team also worked blind. They saw each trailer only by an animal nickname, so every anti-fraud rule was locked in before anyone knew which films were rising.
To everyone who voted and shared, and to every filmmaker who put a vision of the future into the world. Voting is closed. Every top-five trailer is above.