Welcome to Thanksgiving 2025

Welcome to Thanksgiving, 2025 replaces the holiday table with a feast of infrastructure. Server racks open toward a glowing gravitational portal. Nuclear plants, launch systems, and automated assembly lines stretch across the horizon, while a red organic conduit enters an otherwise metallic world. The painterly panorama combines the abundance of a harvest mural with the vertigo of science-fiction concept art. Instead of food piled high, it offers compute, power, and machinery without visible limit. The substitution gives pointed form to Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross’s Thanksgiving dispatch. AI data centers were consuming memory so rapidly that RAM prices had tripled. Bezos’s Project Prometheus was pursuing autonomous design and manufacture not only of products, but of factories themselves. Estimates suggested that large shares of United States labor and work hours were already technically automatable. The black-hole-like portal at the center converts memory demand into an image of appetite. Racks feed an expanding compute system; nuclear plants supply power; robotic lines embody autonomous manufacture; and launch systems imply that the industrial horizon is still widening. The red conduit keeps organic life and human labor present within a scene that might otherwise seem fully machinic. The Thanksgiving feast stages an unsettling version of abundance. The intelligence buildout consumes components and energy at extraordinary speed while promising machinery capable of designing and reproducing more of the productive system. At the same time, automation reaches toward a major share of existing work. That makes the tableau a sharply dated record of material appetite growing as the Singularity draws nearer. Thanksgiving is traditionally a pause organized around harvest, labor, and shared consumption. Here, the system does not pause, and its harvest is memory, compute, factories, and automatable hours. The work preserves the irony of that date without turning it into a generic warning. Its specific signs—the tripled RAM price, Project Prometheus, and labor estimates—show a material transition already pressing on supply chains and the social meaning of work.