The Future Without You is a collaborative project between Max Pinckers and Thomas Sauvin, who rummaged through 50,000 analog transparencies rescued from a recycling center in Beijing. This 1990s archive consists of US-produced stock photos that ended up in China during an era of global market expansion. Focusing on corporate business and the dawn of the internet, the images feature actors portraying tech-related anxieties—computers as giants, humans controlled by machines, or “binary code” interactions. Recontextualized thirty years later, these generic commercial visuals serve as a prophetic and often humorous genealogy of our current digital reality.