Canon / EsthetoMetric Currency
Property
History
With its unit of measurement, the Canon, Dr. Van Roisemberg’s algorithms made it possible to read across all existing information on the Internet and assign a numerical value to any image, texture, three-dimensional shape, smell or sound stored on the network. Its only drawback at that time was zoning, since tastes are mutant and depend largely on each culture and religion, deeply rooted throughout human history.
Only three years later, using the new segmentation of continents with the borders proposed by Kaplan in her treatise on migration, that Van Roisemberg’s theories would take on a new meaning in the future society that was already taking shape.
It would be more than a decade before the first intelligent marketing programs based on the new EsthetoMetry were used in 2082. Potential buyers could have a comparison panel displaying a product’s price, durability or the number of favorable opinions, but also the product’s rating in terms of “beauty” in relation to where they lived and where they were on the planet at that instant. It was curious to observe at that time how the score of a dress, hairstyle or tattoo changed when the user traveled on a plane to another continent.
This “Taste Revolution” reached its peak with the appearance of the first VirtualMirror in the 2090s, rating the facial and body appearance of the population. These new devices combined the old digital simulation of a make-up, hairstyle or wardrobe, with the value in Canons of the resulting simulated appearance. The first sociological consequence was the substantial delay in the decision making of the users, who took longer than reasonable to decide on their appearance before leaving home.
Today, EsthetoMetry and its measurements are deeply rooted in society all over the planet. No one can conceive a world in which you can decide anything without a personal digital stylist. A minimum score in Canons is necessary to be accepted in certain places of public consumption, such as restaurants, sexual services or discotheques.
The Canon currency has been used as an exchange value since 2101, in combination with the other three New Age currencies. We can adjust scores from our terminals, offsetting some values against others at a given time and thus achieve a certain consumption target.
Characteristics
| Currency Exchange Value | Power | Sociality | Leisure | Beauty | ||
| 12/09/2120 | POTENS | TRANS | LUDENS | CANON | ||
| PowerOmetry: 1 Potens | 1,000 | 0,434 | 0,322 | + 0,018 | ||
| EsthetoMetry: 1 Canon | 0,561 | 0,243 | 5,542 | 1 | ||
| CommuniMetry: 1 Trans | 2,304 | 1,000 | 0,741 | + 0,041 | ||
| LudoMetry: 1 Ludens | 3,109 | 1,349 | 1,000 | + 0,055 | ||
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