four The crowd at my feet goes silent as each member inspects their own device and begins inputting a series of questions that swells with the number of attendees. With each input, a cloud of dialogue appears above the user’s head and displays the question that is most pressing to them. Altogether, the hundred or so of them begin to generate a mass of dialogue clouds that emerge from each head before congregating into larger sections as an algorithm begins to work out what the most popular inquiries are.
Eventually, enough dialogue boxes appear and then fuse together, creating a series of questions that are voted on by each individual member. I’m unsure of what the most popular ones are at this time, and the reveal is always a surprise. I bite my lip, biding my time as my nerves begin to
