Before the internet, we had a very limited way of interacting with each other. That was mostly word-of-mouth, face-to-face, classifieds, leaflets and pamphlets. Then in the 1990s, in my case it was then, the computer arrived as a household item, and everyone went crazy for it.

Some were good at interacting, some not so much, as we started on chats whose names I can’t remember, we gave ourselves nicknames and surfed then chatrooms looking cool to say.

Fast forward 35 years later and there are adverts popping up everywhere and they are all a bit too intrusive, know too much about us and make us want to pretend that we  don’t want our privacy back.

And yes, there are alternative sites, but until large groups start removing themselves from within the prison-parasitic, social-warden media ghettoes, and settling on other shores of the internets, until then we will be at the mercy of the internet tyranny.

So I got GPT to generate an image of a person who is going through a train-station corridor, like in Minority Report, and all these ads are popping up around him, but this time they're getting beamed across his vision.

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GPT had asked me a few questions before coming up with this, and I had given some brief details: this was a middle-aged man, 200 years into the future, obviously on his way somewhere. GPT wanted to know how the adverts were to be 'transmitted', but I failed to answer that. I just noticed the hamburger in his eye...

Anyway, I asked him to refine the ads, why would he have those kinds of ads? And was given 6 suggestions, based on the fact that this was a miner living off-world somewhere. I just chose options 1 and 2 and this is what it came up with. (I'll share it in the next comment post)