Certain, contrary to its title, imagines a future that is anything but fixed. In this vision, humans have created AI systems so advanced, so uncannily human-like, that they are capable of dreaming. One such dream unfolds: a late-capitalist dystopia in which the reaper drone stands as a symbolic proxy — once embodied by warriors on physical battlefields, now displaced by remote and digital surrogates. The drone becomes a marker of human disembodiment within an increasingly virtualised society.

In this future, it is not the human being that holds value, but the data that can be extracted. The logic of exploitation migrates from the factory floor into the digital environment, shaped and accelerated by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. The same corporations that govern our everyday online lives also develop para-autonomous warfare technologies, extending their reach into the arms industry.

Meanwhile, data centres emerge as new sites of geostrategic power, while online markets trade in rendered or ai generated stock footage and instead of real human actors. Even thought itself is outsourced, delegated to artificial neural networks. Within this blurred landscape, the drone acts as a symbolic representative — a herald of both technological acceleration and moral ambivalence.

Certain points to a future scripted by AI predictions, a future in which human foresight becomes obsolete hence no longer certain.