Chris Laughton
Bio
I string words together and sometimes they makes things worth reading.
Stories (3/0)
Immortality
I received news of the burglary while I was in London, far away from home dealing with the acquisition of a new company. The notification did not come from my alarm system, however; that had been bypassed. Instead, I had to step away from a meeting due to vertigo, and any physical distress for me could mean only one thing. I called my trusted financial planner, Mr. Thorne, and asked him to check on my home. He had had dinner with me at my place on countless occasions and would be able to recognize if anything was out of place. He was also a discrete man, one who never asked pesky questions like, “You’ve been my client for 40 years, so why don’t you look a day over 25?”
By Chris Laughton3 years ago in Fiction
Augmented Reality - The Cure for Consumerism
“By all accounts, Prime Day was a massive success for Amazon, seeing massive revenue and profit growth year-over year.” It has almost become a post-Prime Day tradition for Amazon to announce record sales, and you would have been able to find some variation of that statement since the massive online retailer launched the “holiday” in 2015. In 2021, some analysts were disappointed that they estimated sales rose “only” 7% (note that even such an apparently disappointing figure represents an increase of hundreds of millions of dollars). Meanwhile, the latest hard figures released by the company show that they release over 50 metric tons of CO2 in a year, about as much as 13 coal-burning power plants. In a society that is increasingly aware of the impacts of climate change, how do we rectify our seemingly insatiable hunger for consumer goods with the need to reduce the damage we’re doing to the environment? What if I told you the short answer was: “we don’t need to”?
By Chris Laughton3 years ago in Futurism