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No purpose in life except to consume automated services and processed end-products of microbial fermentation. What a future.
by eurasiantiger 4y ago
No purpose in life except to consume automated services and processed end-products of microbial fermentation. What a future.
- version_five 4y agoWhat I learned the last few years is that the matrix was pretty prescient, except the silly idea of a human as a battery. Instead, a human can view X ads and spend $Y per day, and it's that capacity that companies want to harvest with minimal outside distractions.
- eurasiantiger 4y agoAll you need to game that system is to buy the products of your advertisers to make it seem like the campaigns convert.
- lighioaia 4y agoI see the battery as subtle metaphor: when people do not pay attention (sleep) their vitals are used by somebody else (are batteries).
- sircastor 4y agoI saw somewhere that the original script for the matrix described it as using human’s brains for processing power, rather than the battery thing. Supposedly the studio thought the idea was too much for audiences.
- blackoil 4y agoOnly a little different than life of 90% humans today.
- bboygravity 4y agoSounds pretty good to me. My hobbies are pretty satisfying.
- wincy 4y agoDostoyevsky had a fine take of what’ll happen in that future in Notes from Underground, and it’s not likely to go the way utopians will expect.