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Pierre Valentin

Transidentity: when elites privatize reality

Perhaps tomorrow, our elites will perceive a world where images, texts, and videos will be superimposed on top of reality. Street names would be "corrected" by their virtual helmet to transport them to another world, and the Pokémon GO game, which was content to project fictional creatures onto their environment, will seem very timid in comparison. We could even imagine that above the helmeted heads of other users that we would have the misfortune to meet in our streets, a small icon would appear to indicate the "gender" they would want to be at that moment, with the possibility of inventing new ones, of "customizing" themselves even more. Others will have access to a "diminished", raw reality, which once - but will they remember it? - belonged to everyone. 

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