Dear reader from the future
I am just an ordinary person with a story to tell.
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Letter no. 45
Dear reader from the future, Can you imagine a place filled with life-sized puppets to imitate a place filled with people? I just turned 30 and am already at a point in my life where I am considering raising my own family. I have even started to miss the children my husband and I still Read more
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Letter no. 44
Dear reader from the future, The public square is so loud about issues with the highest human engagement (like angst and its relatives) where the highest profit is. And the algorithm knows when to offer “the good stuff,” strategically ordering content to ensure that we get hooked on what we consume, oblivious about how long Read more
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Letter no. 43
Dear reader from the future, I am writing from a time when AI tools are like mushrooms. I’m not sure if they are something you really need or want, but you can find them anywhere and everywhere. Thinking about it now, I can imagine them as ubiquitous as mobile phones. However, some of my peers Read more
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Letter no. 42
Dear reader from the future, What kind of work arrangements do you have today? Is work-from-home now common for government employees? I even wonder what kind of person I’d be when you read this letter. For context, I am a knowledge worker, and my work is assessed based on my output and not the hours Read more
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Letter no. 41
Dear reader from the future, With the recent events in the country, like the tension between China and the Philippines over territorial waters, I wonder what it would be like to live here ten years from now. At the same time, I believe that the future is what we make of it, which led me Read more
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Letter no. 40
Dear reader from the future, Can you remember a world where it is still bearable to go outside on a sunny day? I can only look back to how cool afternoons were when I was five, the trees shading our house from the tolerable outdoor heat. I can recall the memories in tinted blues and Read more
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Letter no. 39
Dear reader from the future, Have you heard about the millenium bug? I’ve just watched a documentary, “Time Bomb Y2K,” and it showed me the extent of the panic that happened before the turn of the century. All I can remember as a five-year-old was that there seemed to be a problem with the turn of Read more