https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k9ajb/this-cyber-monday-watch-cyber-monday-and-think-about-the-world-beyond-tv-discounts

It's Cyber Monday today, which to us means clicking through endless online guides to the best deals deals deals before some smaller fraction of us decides to click through endless screens of actual deals deals deals. One thing very, very few of us will be thinking about regardless is the sheer scale of the labor and infrastructure it takes to make that idle web shopping possible.

Which is one reason it's well worth watching filmmaker Pierce Myers' speculative short, set in Mumbai on a vertical server farm on Cyber Monday in the not-too-distant future, which Motherboard has the pleasure of debuting online today. The the film, which was developed in Sci Arc’s Fiction and Entertainment Studio, headed by Liam Young and Alexey Marfin, explores the spaces beyond our online shopping impulses with a distinctly (and refreshingly) non-dystopian bent.