Lately, I’ve been intrigued by Peter Thiel’s latest lecture series which, believe it or not, grapples with the concept of the Antichrist.
Setting aside the controversy, there’s an observation in his talks worth pausing on: Silicon Valley often echoes the promises of religion.
Resurrection becomes cryonics
Eternal life becomes longevity biotech
The Kingdom of God becomes interplanetary colonization
The Messiah becomes the engineer, AI, or even the collective “we”
To explore this visually, I created a set of website hero mockups as if these “startups” were real. This exercise was both a design challenge and a way to translate abstract, provocative ideas into concrete branding and storytelling.
