Hehe I was just thinking, inspired by the rating system on this website, imagine if we were all able to go around rating people in person. It would require people always to wear their Google glasses while outdoors (I'll go with the glasses in this scenario that I'm outlining anyway, although maybe there could be a less cumbersome way of going about it). If you go into the city for an hour, the face of everyone you walk past gets registered by your glasses, and you have the option to decide with your eyes whether to give them a positive rating or negative rating. This also gets registered by that person's glasses, but there's a ten or twenty minute delay before it has an effect on their rating so that they won't be able to tell who gave them what rating. It's totally anonymous you see, hehe! You can't trust some people not to take it personally, and this delay would remove the likelihood of fights and arguments breaking out on the street. Let's say 5 cents gets added to a person's bank account for each rating they give to incentivize them to rate, or for richer people the money can go directly to a charity of their choice to make them feel like they're good people.
Anyone can opt out of participating if they choose but they'll be treated like an ostracized minority if they do because this is the future, baby. The ratings given could be based on appearance, clothing, demeanour, the voice of the person if you overhear them speaking, a combination of all those things, or completely different reasons. When you get home from the city, you can check the anonymous ratings you received while you were out and about, and might see that you have 537 new ratings or something. You could then look at your positive and negative percentages, and if you only got a 30% positive rating during that time, maybe you'd never wear the outfit you wore that day ever again. And perhaps the real life anonymous ratings could be added to people's online profiles, so a woman swiping through her matches on a dating app would be able to see that a man has a 61% anonymous approval rating, and she might make her decision on whether to swipe left or right based on that. Thinking "hmm so when I'm out in public with him, about 61% of people will view my partner positively, which will reflect on me too. That's not good enough, I need at least 80% --- NEXT".
There are some rough edges to this idea that I'd need to smooth out (like whether there should be a rating retirement age and past a certain point you'll receive no new ratings, you'll just have a 'lifetime rating' -- which perhaps could be engraved on your headstone! 'Here lies Justin Smith 2010-2081. Lifetime approval rating 73%. May he rest in peace.') but I think what I'm suggesting is an appropriate system for an increasingly shallow society. A luddite like Gregor 'the robots are going to enslave us' Samsa will clutch his pearls again of course upon seeing this and go "oh nooooo, the ruination of us all!". I bet you've got an issue with my soulless vision for the future of humanity, haven't you Gregor, you technophobe?
. "Yes I'm typing this on the internet which is only a few decades old and is one of the greatest achievements in history and has changed our lives forever, but I'm telling you this AI stuff is going to destroy us; it's too much." What a wet blanket! Some people live to be doomsayers.
