Today's #dailysignal looks at how botox, is well, toxic to emotional empathy - and how that relates to the virtualisation and flattening of everything - and how that in turn relates to the age of (midway) AI and the "quiet quitting" epidemic in the workplace (and how homogenising and - literally - flattening ourselves may not be the best idea for human flourishing - or even business success).
Do you agree human-ness (in all its messy-ness) is a competitive advantage?
Where else have you seen homogenisation as a trend?
What other "innocent" advances could have hidden ripple effects?
Let me know in the comments…
Read more:
Messing with our mirror neurons (to look good in the mirror) : https://cnlm.uci.edu/2023/03/23/botox-injections-in-forehead-can-change-how-brains-process-emotions/
The un-safe safety of average : https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average
(Although I called the mid-wit AI age out first in my 23 Trends for 2013 deck : https://twitter.com/search?q=%40bronwynwilliams%20this%20year%20I%27ve%20got&src=typed_query )
More on the strange, sad future of us (without conscious action) : https://www.fluxtrends.com/future-of-us-salon/
More on the homogenisation of us :
More on the flattening of us : https://whatthefuturenow.com/2021/08/10/virtualised-and-discrete/
Toxic femininity (but literally)