The Berggruen Institute, a think and action tank dedicated to advancing ideas that address the challenges of a rapidly transforming world, is creating a wholly new type of time capsule intended to be unearthed one million years from now. Instead of containing relics from the past, this object, called the Eon Ark, will hold something far more capable of helping explain the past. A snapshot of humanity itself, recordings of thousands of real people captured via conversational AI.
Creative agency Sounds Fun, known for blending emerging culture and cutting-edge technology, has partnered with The Berggruen Institute to develop the Eon Ark. This one-of-a-kind digital experience builds a personality model off of an interactive Q&A (powered by AI), which will then be etched into glass to one day interact with a human a million years from today.
Eon Ark is part of Future Wunderkammer, a digital archive of speculative ‘future relics’ that blend art, science, and storytelling to explore humanity’s evolving relationship with technology, identity, and ecology. Future Wunderkammer is developed by The Berggruen Institute’s Future Humans team.
