So I was reading NAWLZ the other day and realized that although A_R (alternate reality) graffiti would be awesome, the spam would be terrible.
Just imagine walking down the street on a sunny Sunday afternoon, passing by your favorite grinder shop, going to get some comics and see what's going on in Peter Parkers life, when all of a sudden a message nearly blind-sides you with an epileptic seizure saying HEY OMG THIS GIRL RIT HERE IN THIS HUOSE IS SO FRIKKIN HAWT LIKE YOU CANNT EVEN BELIEVE ME MAN SO JELLII!! with a little arrow pointing to that building that's been abandoned for at least tree months.
Basically, it'd be the internet. But this internet surrounds you with noises that don't stop and images that follow your pupil so you can't look away.
Imagine New York City... No wait! Don't do that. Just.. just don't
Luckily for us this digital hell not too unlike a non-lightcycle Tron will never happen. Things like advertising space and how it interacts with your personal bubble is kept safe by laws. There will obviously be a system in place that will punish A_R spammers and … oh wait.. it's just like the internet. Nevermind, it'll be terrible.
If the government actually cared about this, we'd all be synched into it already. Child molesters would have their little digital scarlet letters floating over their heads. Crimes in progress would be channeled to proper authorities and people nearby would receive warning messages that they were in a danger zone. Concert tickets would be rendered useless because you could patch into someone else's view. Walking alone at night wouldn't be terrifying because you know how close every person near you is. Even the hobos.
But that stuff's not going to happen because no one wants Big Bro watching you poo. But once the tech gets built it will happen because we NEED to be jacked into everyone else's lives every second and there's no platform to prevent this spamming to happen. So enjoy these technologically deficit days where you can enjoy your surroundings and not have yet one more reason to become a hermit spending all your time learning how to Hadoken.
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