We need to reclaim our attention

Re:We need to reclaim our attention by neuronic on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:00PM (#29770468)

A Pokemon GO - like game but developed by a subversive power to destabilize society further and further, inch by inch, slowly until the strength withers from within.

Would be a decent Black Mirror episode.

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Re:We need to reclaim our attention by mc32 on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:18PM (#29770758)

Yep but with real life implications such as social credits and in game credits to influence behavior.

For example we have people who forgo actual social interaction and instead favor synthetic relationships and achievements.

Potentially you could maid millions happy by giving them a synthetic world and IRL they live off some form of UBI but because the made up world is most of their existence they don’t mind nor care about their IRL standard of living going down, etc.

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Re:We need to reclaim our attention by blowfish721 on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:49PM (#29771263)

Or maybe a Southpark episode? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinpokomon

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Re:We need to reclaim our attention by jacquesm on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:34PM (#29771014)

Charles Stross has this, a game called 'Spooks' in one of his books.

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