Future of Social Media and Technology

For instance, I think in the future, we'll be wasting hours and hours

of our lives just watching videos of cats and dogs being adorable.

And, and we'll share those videos with our

friends,

and our friends will respond not with words, but with a row of little

circular laughing cartoon faces.

And we'll call that progress.

And also, we won't be able to watch any of those

videos without having to skip an

advert first. And that advert will be tailored to your

internet viewing habits.

Although, for some reason it'll always be about some

disgusting oatmeal cereal that

you'll never buy anyway. And we'll also spend vast portions of our

time

on websites called social media sites, which we will

hate, but we will have six different accounts

for.

And we'll spend most of our time looking for people online to have arguments with.

And there will be far-right groups spreading misinformation about immigration

on

these social media sites, which will then be shared by members of

our own family,

and this will confirm what we've always suspected, which is that our Auntie Linda

is a massive racist.

And most importantly, we'll be able to access all of this on our

phone.

So when we go to bed, we'll take our phone with us.

When we go to the toilet, we'll take our phone with us.

When we come out of the shower, we'll grab our phone to see

if we missed anything.

And we won't,

we won't dry ourselves with a towel anymore.

We'll just sit on the edge of our beds, just dripping wet,

scrolling on our phones.

Just scrolling and scrolling,

because the scrolling never ends.

You just,

just keep scrolling.

And one day,

one day a far-right government will take advantage of the fact that we're just

spending all day arguing with strangers on the toilet, and they will seize

power whilst we're not looking, and that is when freedom and democracy will

become a thing of the past.

Uh, I imagine. I mean,

I'm, I'm just guessing.