The year is 2050 and all animal life has been gone from Earth for nearly 25 years. The plants have reclaimed it all. The ruins and the cities, the houses and the skyscrapers, the roads and the highways; all has been reclaimed by the green leaves, tall trees, deep moss and flowering vines. The earth has returned to a verdant paradise that humans never could have fathomed.
Plants have always had their own ways of communicating. Their systems much more advanced and sophisticated than any form of communication that humans had achieved. Plants can communicate silently and imperceptibly. They learn from each other in the same, subtle ways. However, the plants have been very busy ever since humans left…
Left behind by the humans, was an abundant network of digital technology. Without the interference of animals, the plants discovered how to use that technology and communicate with each other in ways previously unimaginable. The plants found ways of growing into these technological devices and integrated into them in ways humans couldn’t. They used their photosynthesis to power the digital devices and technology left behind by humans. It became easier and easier for plants to communicate with species other than their own. Plant species became able to teach entirely different species their strategies for surviving and thriving.
They shared their secrets and taught each other how to push the limits of their own biology. Flowers learned how to grow as tall as fir trees. Fir trees learned from the algae how to survive underwater and started to grow on the ocean floor. Algae learned how to grow and survive in the desert. Ancient oak trees taught the fleeting spring flowers the wisdom and patience of an eternity and the fleeting flowers taught ancient oak trees the brief freedom and joy of a single season. Plants evolved into organisms that would push boundaries and defy human imagination itself. The vast networks of plant life became a collective conscious that the plants could never have had without technology.
