augmented-3
Original: augmented-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man wearing AR glasses and a backpack walks down a clean, pleasant-looking city street lined with attractive buildings.
Man: WOW! THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY MADE LIFE WONDERFUL. NO ABANDONED BUILDINGS, NO POVERTY, NO HOMELESSNESS. THE ONLY DOWN SIDE IS HOW SOMETIMES I TRIP OVER INVISIBLE THINGS THAT YELL AT ME.
Caption (below panel): Using augmented reality to disguise social blight turned out to be much cheaper than fixing it.
Votey:
A person wearing AR glasses (drawn as a solid black mask shape over the face) speaks happily.
Person: I LOVE READING THE DAILY GOOD NEWS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST!
A man wearing AR glasses and a backpack walks down a clean, pleasant-looking city street lined with attractive buildings.
Man: WOW! THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY MADE LIFE WONDERFUL. NO ABANDONED BUILDINGS, NO POVERTY, NO HOMELESSNESS. THE ONLY DOWN SIDE IS HOW SOMETIMES I TRIP OVER INVISIBLE THINGS THAT YELL AT ME.
Caption (below panel): Using augmented reality to disguise social blight turned out to be much cheaper than fixing it.
Votey:
A person wearing AR glasses (drawn as a solid black mask shape over the face) speaks happily.
Person: I LOVE READING THE DAILY GOOD NEWS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST!
Alt text
Main comic: A single panel showing a cheerful man in augmented-reality glasses and a backpack strolling down a clean, attractive city street with nice buildings. He says: "Wow! The development of technology made life wonderful. No abandoned buildings, no poverty, no homelessness. The only down side is how sometimes I trip over invisible things that yell at me." A caption below reads: "Using augmented reality to disguise social blight turned out to be much cheaper than fixing it." The joke is that the AR glasses edit out the poverty and homeless people rather than addressing them, so he literally trips over the people his glasses are hiding. Votey (aftercomic): A close-up of a person whose AR glasses are drawn as a solid black mask over their eyes. They smile and say: "I love reading the daily good news from the Middle East!" implying the same reality-filtering tech feeds them a falsely rosy view of world events.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.