Jon Bois

17776, also known as What Football Will Look Like in the Future, is a serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative by Jon Bois published online through SB Nation. Set in the distant future, the series follows three space probes that have gained sentience and watch humanity play an evolved form of American football, in which games can be played for millennia over distances of thousands of miles. The series debuted on July 5, 2017, and new chapters were published daily until the series concluded ten days later with its twenty-fifth chapter on July 15. The work incorporates text, animated
GIF and still images, and videos hosted on YouTube.

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if they advanced too much further technologically, those advances would inevitably intrude on their humanity. people wanted to walk. they wanted to take the bus that smelled like cigarettes. they wanted those precious three minutes between asking a question and knowing the answer.

we didn't know we'd have each other for good. back then there was real fear. real worry. the world was all fucked up. i remember feeling so alone. like i was the only one fighting it.

we were all in it together, though. every stranger you ever met, they were fighting the very same fight you were. of course, you didn't talk about it with them, but all of us saw that terror, the terror any mortal person has. that terror wasn't natural. no other creature in the universe woke up every morning knowing it was guaranteed to die one day. just us. nobody should have to live with that. it's too much, it isn't right. no one ever should have had to bear it.

but we did. we all stared it down and kept on going. and we did it together, we were all in it together.

we all had each other, no matter how often we forgot it. all of us, we always had each other.

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