Are you an NPC?

NPCs as people, and people as NPCs. 

We look into the weird surrealist world of real people acting like bots (on purpose) - as bots supplant real people in our relationships and in our offices. 

Take a look at the links. It’s weirder than you think out there - and it’s messing with your brains (and your business). 

Do you want connection? Or just the illusion thereof? 

Is anyone (other than you - even you??) real anyway? 

Do you think an “untact” society where we replace messy imperfect human relationships (and relations) with perfectly programmed and scripted AI alts is utopian or dystopian? 

And do you think it’s wise, dangerous or harmless for humans to try to become more bot-like to compete with synthetic people for love, likes or money?

Let us know! at Flux Trends (and come to our Cape Town salon where we dive all into this stuff and what it means for the future of value and value exchange) 

Read more:

• NPC energy : https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/56692/1/are-npc-video-game-the-new-main-character-syndrome-tiktok

• I mean…https://www.thecut.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-replika-boyfriend.html

• Vicious cycles : https://whatthefuturenow.com/2023/01/31/greve-du-zele/

• Buy Tracey Follows book : https://www.amazon.com/Future-You-Identity-21st-Century-Technology/dp/1783965452

• Come to our salon with dion chang & Sharon Pearce : https://www.fluxtrends.com/our-future-of-us-salon-is-coming-to-cape-town/