Magali Barbé – Strange Beasts
An evening pause: The future appears it will become a very lonely and isolated place, very divorced from reality.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
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In other words everyone in the future is seen by anyone observing them as being deranged, disconnected and basically crazy.
This used to be the case in the not so long a go past and sometimes today when we see people “talking to themselves”. And then we notice the wire or buds in that persons ear and realize that they are talking to someone on the phone.
Not so long ago it was easy to tell who was nuts and who was not, in the future, not so easy.