i’m going to assume that you have seen the hunger games and under that film and where it fits into a potential dystopian vision of a future world and then ask you to consider maybe a potential of that as reality for a moment.
. .. i’m asking you to immerse yourself in an idea for a moment.
i’ve always had an interest in how art imitates life and the other way around, stories and storytelling have had a profound effect on me and i’m sure every other human that has ever lived on planet earth.
it’s our life blood to communicate to each other, share stories and experiences and cross reference, reinforce each other and subject and add to it with our life vectors, how it panned out for us and the circumstances that brought us to a similar point.
at times i have glances of a potential world like hunger games except the entries are governed by what cryptocurrency you have in your digital wallets with your wallet being your identification in the passing through zones.
the world has put up physical borders around the world taking cues from the american biff tanner and his illusions of country level security from nearby neighbours.
we have standalone internets connected to the big pipes of the world, each country has their own internet and we have state by state and street by street micro cells
we had to have those as a cache buffer from the constant barrage of state designed next generation AI ddos attacks aimed solely at the older technology that was gradually phased out that was build in other nations.
all technology now is country specific, you use the technology of the country you live in, everything is hardware level deep packet inspected because on a ruleset that the local state and wide government of your zone implements, your digital id and wallet are cross linked.
to travel and traverse you now have to have certain access levels, hold a level of value in certain crypto currencies and shares in a rounded, active lifestyle driven by the work you do in society, your numbers literally provide the level of lifestyle you live.
entertainment has been automated, it’s filtered and access is only allowed on the state of your crypto id and wallet — AI mashes together friends and family media together depending on their involvement in society and you receive a collection of videos and news to match your 23&me profile.
23&me was acquired by federal government for an undisclosed amount and is a profile that is automatically taken now at birth and fed into your crypto id and wallet, both formed when you are born but not brought into active force until of adult age or when your rep level reaches designation.
instead of immigration and border control we have state level country wide speedball X events, all sport types are covered in a daily olympics games inspired format, AI allows you pay for credits to see your favourite people play by replacing faces, graphics and b-roll.
fiat money was outlawed long ago, the government hacked all current blockchain technology using super computer AI systems, all current holders lost their digital id/wallets and were considered threats to nations, they were the first people to be pushed into the speedball X events.
the government blockchain initiative was rolled out by over 50 nations, davos was relabelled as D.A.R.Y.L and local drop in centres were put in place in all countries and labelled as a tourist activity just outside of each airport, now points and social involvement replace currency.
jobs are obsolete now, instead tasks are delegated based on your skill tree and you are provided a basic income based on your blockchain holdings and transportation has been limited because of climate change and pollution, food and water is rationed and delivered based on your output.
how do you define your reality when it comes to value. how do you create it, how do you hold on to it, is it possible to atomically swap analog real world legacy value into it’s digital equivalent, is your opinion relevant in a dynamically created blockchain ledger, how do you make sure that your records are not corruptible and is it possible to keep up?
if i was to ask you today what your idea of the hunger games are for the country you currently live in what would they be? i’m interested to hear you!
pinterest epic wins pinboard → brand advocate for nokia, 1000heads, verisign → won vloggie for node666 (san fran 2006) → television for time team history hunters 1999 (burton on trent) → sold me.dm to evan williams in april 2011 → went to phil campbell, alabama to help raise money after tornado ripped up the town (was on sky news, bbc news)→ CNN for sxsw 2013 about austin south by southwest event → video chat with robert scoble from rackspace → music video can you spot me? → won the digital derry contest for 5k euros → crowdfunded digital signage concept called pi street → now living life through digital blockchains.
