This is unintentionally bleak in a way that’s hard to describe, but maybe best epitomized by this quote: “It is a little cool to think of cemeteries in the future that are literally haunted by motion-activated holograms…” No. Not cool. Not cool at all. - ThreadSky

hypervisible.bsky.social • 212 days ago

This is unintentionally bleak in a way that’s hard to describe, but maybe best epitomized by this quote:

“It is a little cool to think of cemeteries in the future that are literally haunted by motion-activated holograms…”

No. Not cool. Not cool at all.

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tho-alan.bsky.social•211 days ago

But they did this in Hollow Knight and it was kind of neat. At least it put all the backers in one easily-ignored spot

anubisthejackal.bsky.social•212 days ago

What's funny about this is that the seminal Mass Effect trilogy has a plot point where an entire race of autonomous, sentient machines came about, in part, because the aliens that created them were trying to "preserve" the essence of their dead via AI.

kh0rish.bsky.social•212 days ago

They just cant stop solutioning no one asked for in search of problem. Scrambling for the next big thing to keep the game going, wishcasting unicorns

matthopeart.bsky.social•212 days ago

Somewhere the black mirror guy is screaming

spicycatnoodle.bsky.social•211 days ago

You've heard of the Sierra Madre Casino. We all have, the legend, the curses. Some foolishness about it lying in the middle of a City of Dead. A city of ghosts... An illusion that you can begin again, change your fortunes. Finding it, though, that's not the hard part. It's letting go

jenthetracy.bsky.social•212 days ago

I struggle forgiving a society that has homeless living humans and holograms for the dead.

shablopligh.bsky.social•212 days ago

“Dead celebrities are being digitally resurrected — and the ethics are murky: Hologram performances, artificial voices and posthumous albums pose tough ethical questions, critics say” https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/dead-celebrities-digital-resurrection-1.6132738

phoebebarton.bsky.social•211 days ago

"So he imagines a reconfigurable architectural robotic space: Walls move, objects inflate or unfold, furniture appears or dissolves into surfaces or recombines."

and you thought being crushed to death by a Murphy bed was fun - you've not seen anything yet!

hypervisible.bsky.social•211 days ago

lol!

minarky.bsky.social•212 days ago

How fitting that all the artwork in the article is uncanny and makes at least one person look like they're trying not to scream in agony in every. Single. Image.

antimattr359.bsky.social•212 days ago

This is a litany of horrors.

bsarginger.bsky.social•212 days ago

Going to delete all photos and recordings of myself to prevent my hologram ghost selling my descendants a reverse mortgage.

marissadraws.bsky.social•212 days ago

One main thing that strikes me in actually reading things: It supposes that by 2050 they'll need computers as dating coaches. But... no thought put to the AMOC collapse? That seems a more pressing matter than hookups.

aroun.bsky.social•212 days ago

Can we just send all the tech bros to Mars? (Doesn’t matter if they actually make it)

booktweeting.bsky.social•212 days ago

“cool” and “chilling” are almost synonyms 🤷🏻‍♀️

marsrover.bsky.social•212 days ago

I thought these kinds of "tales of the future" articles were finished in the 60s & 70s? Because by the 80s we realized every atom of all matter would only ever be used to increase shareholder value.

m00psy.bsky.social•212 days ago

this one haunted me so much i somehow mandala effected that it aired when i was in middle school instead of fully 10 years earlier https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_2100

m00psy.bsky.social•212 days ago

*10 years later

whoops lol

wilsonquincy.bsky.social•212 days ago

So basically, we will all be Michael J. Fox in the Frighteners. Sounds like a great idea.

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