Examples & Class Demos

Interactive demos, visualizations, and examples from GEN2050 Futuristic Technologies.

Interactive Demos


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High Scores
Live leaderboards for every GEN2050 game โ€” watch scores update in real time as students play.
ALL DAYS โ€” LEADERBOARD
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The Promise & Perils of AI
Flip between AI's promise and its perils, test your hallucination radar against real AI-style claims, and build your own family toolkit of AI habits.
FOR STUDENTS & FAMILIES
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VLSI โ€” Inside a Chip
Zoom from a thumbnail-sized chip all the way down to a single transistor. See how billions of tiny switches fit inside your phone.
DAY 1 โ€” From One to Many Transistors
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Advanced Photon Source
Watch electrons race through the Linac, PAR, and Booster before circulating in the Storage Ring and firing X-ray beams to 60+ scientific stations for research in material science.
DAY 1 โ€” The APS
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The Tech Explosion
Drag through 75 years of exponential growth โ€” watch transistors, storage, speed, and internet users explode from almost nothing to mind-blowing numbers.
DAY 1 โ€” Exponential Growth of Technology
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How Agentic AI Works
Pick a mission and watch an AI agent plan, use tools, check its work, and loop until the job is done โ€” step by step.
DAY 2 โ€” AI
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Recursive Self-Improvement
Watch an AI upgrade itself โ€” and get faster at upgrading โ€” until improvements happen in milliseconds. Can you spot the intelligence explosion?
DAY 2 โ€” AI
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Saving Files to USB
Step-by-step guide to copying your camp projects onto your GEN2050 USB flash drive in Windows โ€” with tips on safe ejecting!
DAY 2 โ€” HOW-TO
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The Singularity โ€” 2045
A live countdown to the predicted moment AI surpasses all human intelligence โ€” with a timeline, age calculator, and the big debate about what happens next.
DAY 2 โ€” AI
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What Is Open Source?
Learn why some software lets anyone see, use, change, and share its code โ€” and watch a project grow as contributors add features one by one.
DAY 3 โ€” OPEN SOURCE
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FPS ยท VR ยท AI
Flip an enemy drone's AI from dumb to smart and watch the Senseโ€“Thinkโ€“Actโ€“Learn loop kick in โ€” then see how FPS games became one of AI's favorite training grounds.
DAY 4 โ€” AI
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Clientโ€“Server Model
Step through how multiplayer games really work โ€” watch data packets fly between players and the server, and test how ping affects gameplay.
DAY 4 โ€” CLIENT-SERVER
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One Engine, Countless Games
Pick a franchise โ€” DOOM, Half-Life, Call of Duty, Apex Legends โ€” and watch its family tree trace all the way back to a single 1996 game engine.
DAY 5 โ€” FPS Game Engine History
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Computer Graphics & VFX
Build your own fireworks, nebulas, and ring tunnels in a live particle playground โ€” then explore the pipeline that carries effects like these from Blender into Godot, with AI helping along the way.
DAY 6 โ€” GRAPHICS & VFX
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Neural Network Playground
Train a tiny AI model right in your browser and watch it learn patterns.
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Game Loop Visualizer
Understand the updateโ€“render cycle that powers every video game.
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