2014-05-27
Original: 2014-05-27 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (graph): Y-axis labeled "WILLINGNESS TO GIVE UP PERSONAL PRIVACY". X-axis labeled "AWESOMENESS OF TECHNOLOGY". A red line slopes steeply upward to the right.
Panel 2 (graph): Y-axis labeled "AWESOMENESS OF TECHNOLOGY". X-axis labeled "TIME". A red line curves steeply upward to the right.
Panel 3: Banner across the top reads "OH COMEDY". An older woman with gray hair and glasses argues with a younger person with green/teal flame-like hair.
Older woman: "I JUST DON'T THINK EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO THE AMBIENT NANO-CAMERAS CURRENTLY INSIDE MY ANUS."
Younger person: "GOD, YOU'RE OLD-FASHIONED!"
Votey:
Older woman: "ALSO THE NSA'S ANUS CAMS—"
Younger person (interrupting): "CONSPIRACY THEORIST!"
Panel 2 (graph): Y-axis labeled "AWESOMENESS OF TECHNOLOGY". X-axis labeled "TIME". A red line curves steeply upward to the right.
Panel 3: Banner across the top reads "OH COMEDY". An older woman with gray hair and glasses argues with a younger person with green/teal flame-like hair.
Older woman: "I JUST DON'T THINK EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO THE AMBIENT NANO-CAMERAS CURRENTLY INSIDE MY ANUS."
Younger person: "GOD, YOU'RE OLD-FASHIONED!"
Votey:
Older woman: "ALSO THE NSA'S ANUS CAMS—"
Younger person (interrupting): "CONSPIRACY THEORIST!"
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A three-part SMBC comic about privacy versus cool technology. The first panel is a graph with the y-axis "willingness to give up personal privacy" and x-axis "awesomeness of technology", showing a steeply rising red line: the cooler the tech, the more privacy people surrender. The second panel is a graph with y-axis "awesomeness of technology" and x-axis "time", red line rising steeply: tech keeps getting more awesome. The third panel, under a banner reading "OH COMEDY", shows an older woman with glasses arguing with a young person with green flame-like hair. The woman complains, "I just don't think everyone should have access to the ambient nano-cameras currently inside my anus." The youth dismisses her: "God, you're old-fashioned!" In the votey aftercomic, the woman continues, "Also the NSA's anus cams—" and the youth cuts her off with "Conspiracy theorist!" The joke: future tech normalizes total bodily surveillance, and resisting it gets you branded backward or paranoid.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.