The Chameleon Looking Into a Mirror
"The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion", Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly asks. Taken as a whole, he says, fads are just the response of a hive mind to its own reflection.
In this 21st century society is wired into instantaneous networks. Marketing is the mirror. And the collective consumer, Kevin Kelly says, is the chameleon.
(Nice photo, Arcaion! Come to Steemit, and we'll steem you up!)
We are so easily manipulated by marketing and our surrounding influences these days, and the more data is collected and researched, unfortunately the powers that be know more and more exactly which buttons to push to influence the masses.
That is a really cool chameleon by the way.