Max-Story

The Max story shows what the world could look like in 2037 if we act together now.

This Max Story Part 1 is about Max who lives in a climate neutral city and shows that with effective action a turnaround is possible in the 2020s.

Europe had declared a climate emergency and drawn up a master plan. The Green Deal set a concrete course for implementing a climate-neutral world. AI-supported digitization was given the right priority. By setting up a digital trading platform, divided into individual industry sectors and business areas, a portal was built that was tailored to the needs of small businesses, craftsmen and innovative SMEs.

Saving energy through a good building envelope, adapting user habits and generating energy efficiently on their own. Buildings are thus becoming increasingly climate-neutral.

Mobility became a service. After an economic stimulus package in 2020 no longer supported vehicles powered by fossil fuels, many manufacturers restructured their production. They increasingly relied on electricity and other alternatives, but at the same time reduced unit numbers.

The development of autonomous driving was already well advanced, and so the decision was made to convert all individual transport to swarm mobility.

There are now factory floors in every major city with a wide variety of 3D printers producing a wide range of products. From plates, to glasses, to bicycles, to custom 3D tiny houses. These factory floors have automated raw material feeds and AI-optimized logistics. Manufacturers and product developers from around the world can access this fabrication structure. Digital assistants transfer this know-how to 3D printing fabrication halls spread all over the world. On site, robots support experienced 3D printing specialists in their work. Here, too, the climate thanks us - because we can automate labor-intensive production processes, more and more individually. There are no longer long transport routes. Most products are developed globally, but production and delivery are carried out locally. Another step from a centralized system to decentralized structures. Millions of small and medium-sized companies can thus sell their innovative products, components and systems on the global market. The AI-controlled platform uses a value system to query ecological and safety aspects.

Our current water consumption has been significantly reduced and shorter transport distances also contribute to climate neutrality.

Hi, I'm Albert, the digital assistant of the construction platform, and I live in the year 2025. My human mentor gave me this name five years ago because I'm the best at arithmetic, can read quickly and remember everything. I have learned a lot from my mentor. He has had a medium-sized plumbing, heating and air-conditioning company for over 30 years. He has installed highly efficient energy generation systems such as CHP units, heat pumps and hydrogen fuel cells in countless projects and has also planned and implemented around 2,000 complete bathroom modernizations, bringing comfort and convenience to every single modernized house. The knowledge for implementation was stored in his head for a long time. One day, in order not to forget anything, he started to structure all functions, activities and all documents in detail in a digital process flow and document management system. This resulted in room-filling posters with several thousand process steps that always hung on the wall in his office. At some point, the posters were so large that the walls were no longer sufficient. So my mentor teamed up with other experts and created a digital platform into which the process flows were integrated.