I am spending 10 days in the future, and this is what my daily life like in the year 2033, where zero-waste laws are strictly enforced, and no one comes to pick up the trash anymore.
You can read more about this imagined future scenario here.
Today, I felt nostalgic about what it’s like to hold a toothpaste tube and squeeze some toothpaste out in a routine I never have to think about: go to the bathroom, grab a tube, squeeze toothpaste into your toothbrush, and feel clean as the bubbles build up inside your mouth.
That was ten years ago. Now, in 2033, we do it differently.
So, I’m now looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, then reaching out for a malleable toothpaste ball, which I often call bubb-balls (because they’re a ball, which feels like clay, that becomes pasty with a little bit of water and becomes bubbly inside your mouth, same with the toothpaste we have in 2023).
What makes me feel good about the bubb-balls is that I don’t have to throw out empty tubes anymore. And being part of the zero-waste movement makes me feel good too.
The text prompt used to generate this image is “a malleable toothpaste ball which feels like clay, that becomes pasty with a little bit of water and becomes bubbly inside your mouth.”
jessa 