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Smart meters and digital identity systems extend the surveillance grid into the domestic sphere.

AI-generated illustration for About, made with fal.ai (fal-ai/flux-2-pro).

Prompt: A bustling city street at night, rendered as a panoramic view. Above the city, a vast, transparent digital overlay shows a glowing map with data points connected by lines, like a real-time surveillance grid. Below, a subtle grid of electromagnetic waves emanates from smart meters on the sides of buildings. Style: Detailed digital illustration blending technical schematic linework with painterly atmospheric rendering, as if a scientific textbook were reimagined by a noir graphic novelist. Colour palette of deep midnight blue, charcoal black, and slate grey as foundations, accented with electric teal, bioluminescent green, and cold amber. Lighting is dramatic and directional, suggesting surveillance or laboratory environments — pools of cold light against deep shadow, with occasional glowing circuit-trace highlights. Compositions favour tight framing with layered depth: foreground technical detail dissolving into abstracted background geometry. Detail level is high but purposeful, prioritising legible structure over decorative complexity. Mood is clinical yet ominous, precise yet unsettling. No text, lettering, captions, logos, watermarks or borders unless it is a technical drawing.