Phantom Sugar

Based on an exploration of AI-controlled vertical farming, the work imagines a near-future science fiction narrative where vertical farming has brought all crop growth under algorithmic control, allowing every second of a plant's respiration to be predicted. The work explores themes such as ant colony optimization algorithms, future agriculture, Laplace's demon, and humanity's obsession with prediction and control.The historical background of this work concerns Chen Boda's proposal for “Electronic Industry First” in China 1970s, which was aborted, and the subsequent emergence of the electronic mass movement；the other one is the Project Cybersyn from Chilean (1971 to 1973 during the presidency of Salvador Allende),aimed at constructing a distributed decision support.