SlopppyEngineer

AR replaces all screens, buttons and interfaces with holograms. This can be a hologram with the shiny lines you see in many sci-fi, replacing laptop screens, fiddly little interfaces for gadgets, ... These things would also be great for designing stuff, teaching using proper models instead of pictures in a book.

Or it can be indistinguishable from real-life, such as having an empty paper book and have the AR glasses overlaying an e-book, such that it reads, looks, feels and smells like a classic tome. Weather predictions look like a note stuck to your door.

Then you have entertainment. That goes from table top games look like they are on the table, to running around outside casting fireballs and chain lighting.

Or it can be an ad riddled nightmare where everything you look at and your reaction is recorded and shared by corporations.

We need a scapegoat in place when the AI bubble pops, the guy is applying for the job and is a perfect fit.

And company leaders that get too big get cut down to size instead of letting them becoming a monopoly and slowing down.

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What gives workers even less time to be consumers, making China even more dependant on overseas markets.

It's all talk. Corpos crave dirt cheap desperate immigrant workers and will make sure neither party messes this up.

Although they are bad long term. Any platform reaching critical mass is invaded by the corporations, fanatics and propaganda campaigns.

The same thing with things like Stonehenge. I liked the theory that said these types of constructions are the result of the prehistoric version of Burning Man, where they built it just because they could as an art installation.

"The Thing" was a very clear warning

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Yeah, we're nicknaming that kid "The Hov".

Hundred years. Big difference with the 100.000 years of the current waste.