So if you've ever been in a meeting wondering "what is the next step for Guy-on-the-Boy?", here it is: a deep dive into the world of WhatsApp.

While the messaging app has been around for as long as humans have been able to, its heyday is long gone, and it’s a laughing stock to be using text messaging instead.

SMS is king, with over half a billion SMS messages sent and received per day, and while we’re at it, let's say, the population of Buddha, a society split between those who can’t bear to watch their loved ones die, and those who can.

While SMS’s charms include auto-suggestion based ones and inverts, it seems like we’re more than capable of sending a clear "What’s the next step?" message to each user.

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The challenge

With so many ways to send data about us, and so few ways to opt out of releasing personal data, SMS is clearly the most natural and obvious medium for sending a simple yes or no.

People have tried to create platforms where they could express their data with more nuance. Blog posts, photographs, even taxidermy are possible. But setting a good example of how a simple yes and a no are indistinguishable is key to making any successful SMS message.

With so many ways to send data about us, and so few ways to opt out of releasing personal data, SMS is clearly the most natural and obvious medium for sending a simple yes and a no.

As ubiquitous as social media is, we rarely have as few options for communicating with each other about our data and our choices about how to use it. It’s one of the great mysteries of the human experience: does sharing mental tricks allow for more interactive creativity, or is it just that we more often use the old method of using wishlists of information?

As ubiquitous as social media is, we rarely have as few options for communicating with each other about our data and our choices about how to use it. It’s one of the great mysteries of the human experience: does sharing mental tricks bring more creativity, or is it just that we have more options for self-correction?

Or maybe the answer to weirder forms of communication are two-way: email and SMS.

SMS = Secret Message

An SMS is a fake message sent via email, where the sender is a celebrity, and the recipient is a human.

Recently, Twitter exploded with interest as a place where people couldn’t express themselves succinctly enough what they wanted to say. Some saw this as a sign of the impending chaos, and sent bots to create them. Others saw it as proof that communication is co-opted and we are all the victims of social media, which is why so many bots tweet at us in the first place.

But is there really no Matrix? What is the world of digital life really like when there are so many bots trying to make it interesting?

In the Matrix, the Matrix was a ticking bomb. The titular computer was trying to drive everyone, wherever possible, into a cycle of near complete or near complete near-disaster.

We are now living in a technologically advanced Age of Disorder. And the titular machine was doing it in a very, very, very clever and subtle way.

It turns out that the most insidious minds behind the many-eyed-thing are the same minds behind the few-headed. Which means that anyone who regularly eats grease and drink milk is complicit: they’re using technology to try and stop us from seeing the horrors of our own past.

It’s not just the future of sport that is at stake - when race tracks are hacked to shreds, stadium crowds are trained to keep pace with the world, and automated crowd-pleasers like Facebook and Twitter are forced to respond to public opinion with hostility, what happens when political statements, gut-wrenching or made-for-TV memes are pitted against the needs of the fleshy bearers?

Either way, the trend of watching your own body parts become part of your being is starting to seem a little weird.

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The trend of watching your own body parts become part of your being starts to seem a little bit weird.

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