Charlie Brooker’s future shocker,where people are constantly projecting a sunny image of themselves and rating each other out of five, feels terrifyingly closeImagine a time where zombie-like people watch only into their smart phones. They swipe and they rate not just cabs and restaurants but people, or too. They take photos of themselves being pleased and looking good; also photos of things silly things,sunny things, or food they are eating, and cold food. Then they post the pictures and wait,for feedback, for approval. They are posting their lives – not so much their real lives but the lives they want other people to see and think they are living. Mostly they worry, and approximately how they are seen,approximately their status … Related: Charlie Brooker: 'Someone threatened to smuggle a rifle through customs and kill me' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com