Tomorrow’s App

It started as a miracle of technology — an app called Tomorrow. You’d scan your iris, and within seconds, it showed a ten-second clip of your future. Not decades ahead, not even years — just a glimpse of what would happen twenty-four hours later.

At first, people were obsessed. The app promised safety and certainty. No more bad dates, no accidents, no surprises. If you saw yourself happy the next day, you could rest easy. If you saw something bad… well, you could avoid it.

But soon, the world began to change.

People stopped taking risks. No one tried new jobs or fell in love with uncertainty. Artists quit creating because they already knew if tomorrow’s audience would like their work. Parents planned every conversation with their children after previewing them. Life became a series of pre-approved choices — a perfectly predictable loop.

Then came Day Zero, when the system glitched. For twelve hours, Tomorrow stopped working.

The world went into chaos. Traffic lights failed because drivers refused to move without confirmation they’d arrive safely. Stock markets crashed. People locked themselves indoors, terrified of the unknown.

But one girl, Mira, decided to do something no one had done in years — she went outside without checking the app.

She walked through empty streets, feeling the cold wind on her face, the smell of rain in the air. Everything felt sharper, louder, alive. She saw a boy sitting on a park bench, staring at his dead phone. “You didn’t check your future either?” she asked.

He smiled. “Guess I wanted to be surprised.”

They talked until sunrise. And for the first time in her life, Mira didn’t know what would happen next — and it felt like freedom.

When the app came back online the next morning, she didn’t open it. She deleted Tomorrow instead.

Within weeks, others followed. People began meeting without planning every word. They started living now instead of waiting for then.

The company behind Tomorrow tried to relaunch the app with a new slogan:

“See what’s coming — or miss what matters.”

But the world had already learned the truth.

Sometimes, not knowing is what keeps us human.