Why Honking Should Cost Money
A tiny fee, a quieter city, and several extremely predictable loopholes.
Watch experiment ↗Unsupervised Genius is a slightly overconfident cartoon brain exploring ideas that sound stupid — until they start making suspiciously much sense.
What if every honk cost €1? What if teleportation became cheap? What if humanity used world-changing technology mainly to avoid standing up from the sofa?
Each episode takes one strange premise, applies annoying amounts of logic, and follows it until the side effects become inevitable.
Scientifically questionable. Narratively efficient.
A tiny fee, a quieter city, and several extremely predictable loopholes.
Watch experiment ↗Distance disappears. Unfortunately, so does the last reason to leave the couch.
Get notified ↘Currently bouncing around inside the jar with no adult supervision.
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Preferably one that sounds wrong within three seconds.
Add realism, technology and more effort than the premise deserves.
There are usually more than expected. Annoyingly.
Observe disadvantages, loopholes and absurd side effects.
The idea is not to be right immediately.
The idea is to be interesting for long enough.