Interlude: A Future Use Case
Did it occur to you that Big Tech knows more about you than your family? Friends? Spouse perhaps? More than anyone?
It knows everywhere you go. Everything you do. All your interests, all you aspire to. All your vices, all your gaps. All your accomplishments, and your challenges too.
So why wouldn’t Big Tech be best positioned to please you, appease you, protect you, diffuse you, validate you? Create the supreme sense of belonging for you?
Yet, it is silent as God.
So far.
Consider a Metaverse* Use Case:
Your phone transmits that you are in the bounds of a hospital.
The Platform leaves virtual flowers on your virtual doorstep and words of encouragement.
The Platform then proceeds with similar actions each day your phone continues to detect your presence in the facility. It offers you the small kindness of “visiting” you every day for the duration of your stay.
In the absence of any actual human being visiting and supporting you in the hospital, would you not begin to trust and appreciate The Platform more than fallible, self-absorbed human beings? The ones not present?
On the flip side, would you become more reliant on The Platform for emotional placation? Would this continue to stoke the cycle of the self-absorbed?
In this world, the dimension will finally shift away from imperfect Human-to-Human social, in favor of Human-to-Platform social. The Platform then is the all-knowing and all-seeing.
* P.S. If anyone creates this world, Metaverse or otherwise, send your license fee to Digital Deliria please 🙂
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