Driving Conformity

Enter the wind tunnel (User Zero, Chapter 13)

Adrian Hanft
13 min readDec 6, 2022

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**Author’s Note: The following story is Chapter 13 in my book, User Zero. The images I created for this story have gone viral, generating millions of impressions without any attribution to me. I’m not complaining, that’s how things go online. But will you do me a favor? If you see my images being used without permission can you point people to this page so that they have context to where it originated? Thank you. Sincerely, Ade Hanft.**

This story is taken from User Zero, by Adrian Hanft

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” –Buckminster Fuller

Illustration by Adrian Hanft

What if I told you that after a hundred years of rigorous competition, car manufacturers have finally created the perfect automobile? Would you believe that the evolution of car design has culminated in a vehicle so perfect that every manufacturer has agreed to produce the same model? That would be absurd, wouldn’t it? And yet, in 2022 that is the conclusion you…

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Adrian Hanft

Author of User Zero: Inside the Tool that is Reshaping Dystopia