Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better
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My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.
Ignoring the fact that living rooms and conference rooms are different rooms for a reason, how is this at all desirable?
My biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our city
Don’t worry I’ll be fine because I don’t have to rent out my living room and can see the stars.
This article feels like someone trying to make New Urbanists look bad.
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They even kept the year, so uncreative
They just feel confident in their progress timeline, given recent events.
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They already feel they are better, thats why we get laws for thee but not for me.
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Notice it's "you" will own nothing, not "we".
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"Once in awhile I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. No where I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me."
The consensus seems to be that this is a propaganda piece (or at least heavily opinionated by the writer) but I just don't understand how they could write this with a positive frame of mind. The article is a strange mixture of perspectives that don't seem consistent. Bizarre.
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Published in World Economic Forum · 5 min read · Nov 12, 2016
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Heheh. Sure. If I'm not at home, my sex-toys are up another stranger's bum. It made no sense for us to own anything anymore. My brain implant keeps me indifferent and drugged. Consuming and obedient... I'm happy.
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Then a bit of soma and some orgy-porgy
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In modern context, with Musk censoring and banning everyone and everything he doesn't like, having a backdoor into a country's financial system and probably also deportation, that statement is ominous as hell.
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Seriously. It seems like the subconscious anxieties and fears of the writer's mind come through in statements like this and a few others. Whatever positives (real and imagined) there are about the situation, there is an underlying loss of personal autonomy that causes a sense of unease. The thing that's continuing to intrigue me now is: did the writer intend for that to come through, showing the losses a society of that nature would sustain as a commentary on those that promote it, or are they unaware that their words reveal that distress and anxiety? Idk, weird article.
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I thought you were making that up because it was too relevant, so I grabbed my copy and there it is
one of these days you will be vaporized. You see too clearly. -
Like we’d be so lucky. They want 1984 not a brave new world
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