Predictions for the Coming 10-20 Years: Attention spans decrease to <4 seconds. Education utilizes gamified curriculums as a means to stop unruly behaviour. Social media reward systems fry brain receptors hyper-addicts, that can only function with max stimulus.
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Brands, companies and even personas become known by simple abstract appearances. Cadbury = Purple Coke = Red Apple = Egg shell white Amazon = Orange Google = A faint green Lesser brands are fucked, names longer than 3 words take too long to read.
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Don't act like you've actually read a brand/company name in years. Your brain calculates the rough shape and colour in seconds. You don't *read* adverts you *process* them.
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As more and more 'violent' tools/weapons get banned, people will begin to use more innovative methods of attack. Though we're already seeing this: Cars, fireworks etc. Anything can become an innovative source of pain, method of defense in the hands of an ape.
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Your health insurance will be rescinded if you stop taking algorithmic medical advice (based on your genome and high fidelity measurements of your heart rate, blood pressure, BMI and so on.
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"Dear Mr K, Due to your '4' binge weekends this month inclusive of: 30 pints, 100 cigarettes and 4 diner kebabs we're raising your life insurance by £300. We averaged your car speed over the course of the year, £28 raise. Yours, Insuro-Corp"
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Your groceries get delivered by an uber like service, self driving or no. Items bought algorithmically. Knows when you're out of milk. Knows/decides what meals you make. "Oh, look at that. A new olive oil brand. I liked the other one."
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"The new olive oil powder contains 1.8% more olives."
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Meanwhile, as he mixes the new oil powder, he stares out the Phillips. A grand vista with a setting sun. If he knew anything, Mr K might mourn the loss of liberalism, and of the departure of the economic value of the individual. But his mind is consumed by what he sees.
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All of this is largely because all has been subsumed into some abstract form of capital in people's minds. Once we all *knew* money was a symbol for value, everything was up for grabs. He looks out of the window, his senses static.
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