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Monday, June 19, 2006

Seperating the wealth from the chavs

I'm incredibly rich. Many people don't like to talk about their wealth, but I believe that it's something that you should just get out in a conversation as soon as possible. After all, you wouldn't want to invest half an hour of your precious time chatting to someone who was then unable to play a game quazball (it's silicon valley's latest craze) simply because they couldn't afford the hideously expensive quazball mallet and degaussing wand.

I believe that soon, short range wireless technologies combined with VDU goggles and complex scene rendering technology will allow me to walk through a crowd of people, assessing each person's worth, by totaling up the value of their possessions, from the Bluetooth signal given out by their mobile phone, to the RFID tag embedded in their top quality designerwear. Poor people will be removed from my field of view, perhaps being replaced by the images of movie stars, or street furniture.

I confidently predict that by the year 2050, I'll be able to actually ignore poor people, rather than pretending to, just as I do now.