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Miniature sci-fi concept pitch: A future where the world is largely a privacy-scarce melting pot of competition where individuals vie for leverage over each ot
by jka 7y ago
Miniature sci-fi concept pitch:
A future where the world is largely a privacy-scarce melting pot of competition where individuals vie for leverage over each other based on the scraps of information they can gather, barter for, or source through a myriad of insecure networks which provide some base level of value to users (like, say, a third-party piece of software that runs on a television after the user grants it permission, accidentally or otherwise).
Meanwhile, VCs and technology experts have long seen this coming and retreated to countryside enclaves where electronics are banned, and news of the world is relayed via one-time-pad-over-horseback to ensure that the next level of marginal gain for the elite is collaborated upon in safety from reprisal.
That's the context at least; many possible plots from there. Basically Elysium except that the elite eschew technology because technology security is so flawed that it unintentionally sells them out every time.