A Horror Story from 2035. “The smug mask of virtue triumphant can be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.” What will the future look like? Many Porridge readersfear Technofeudalism – where a new aristocracy of big tech will replace democracy and make serfs of us all. What might it look like…? It being Halloween, as so often happens in the Morning Porridge office, this morning a report from October 2035 crossed between worlds and arrived in the Morning Porridge’s inbox…. The Morning Porridge Oct 31st 2035 – Be Happy.Or else! End of the month is never easy. As a pensioner still working60 hours a week, like everyone else I struggle to pay the bills. There’s a couple of million for Electricity due to the Monks of Westinghouse, Baron Luckey of Gondor wants half a yard of $Trump to pay our share for the swarms and shoals of Andruil Drones that now protect these islands. His boss, the Lord Theil, demands ever more gold (he’s stoppedaccepting dollars) for our access to the Palantir Health Service (formerly the NHS), while the London Recovery surcharge gets bigger every month following Duke Brin’s nuclear decapitation strikes on Facebook’s entire leadership at the start of Google’s hostile acquisition of Meta. (Did someone not tell him Nick Clegg had retired?). The bill from the Reform Corporation for water, road-tax, air-tax and the NBC Licence, (Nigel’s Broadcasting Company) is out of any proportion to the nothingless it delivers......Check out www.morningporridge.com for the whole thing..

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