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"One could also impersonate the facial expressions of someone in more fitting business attire while actually dressed in casual clothing." David Foster Wallace
by glibgil 11y ago
"One could also impersonate the facial expressions of someone in more fitting business attire while actually dressed in casual clothing."
David Foster Wallace [I misremembered it as before edit Philip K. Dick] predicated this would happen. First it would be used to make you look like you were paying attention then it would be used to make you more presentable. He then predicts that when everyone does this it will have the effect of everyone abandoning video telepresence altogether and just going back to using voice only. I can't find the quote.
- clickok 11y agoI haven't read Dick, but a similar passage appears in Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace: The proposed solution to what the telecommunications industry's psychological consultants termed Video-Physiognmoic Dsyphoria (or VPD) was, of course, the advent of High-Definition Masking. Mask-wise, the initial option of High-Definition Photographic Imaging — i.e. taking the most flattering elements of a variety of flattering multi-angle photos of a given phone-consumer and ‚ thanks to existing image-configuration equipment already pioneered by the cosmetics and law-enforcement industries — combining them into a wildly attractive high-def broadcastable composite of a face wearing an earnest, slightly overintense expression of complete attention.
- glibgil 11y agoI must have misremembered. David Foster Wallace it is.