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the messages coming from the person(s) before you.What do they sound like, smell like, taste like, look like, feel like? All dependent on how you’re interacting and what you’re doing. What are they saying? How are they saying it? What language are they speaking? Are they providing non-verbal cues? (of course they are). I could go on and on, but you get the picture.In a world where you knew EVERYTHING about the person(s) before you, there’d be A LOT, a heck-of-a-lot more information to process.In a word … noisier.All their memories and unexpressed thoughts, and feelings and fears and joys and distractions and plenty more would suddenly be yours in a sense. You’d have to filter and process all that info while attending to the relatively simple matter of communicating with them.I’d like to step into that world for a moment. Try it out. See what it feels like. Experiment with it and see what I’d learn. But, I’d like to keep the option open of going back, back to the much simpler and quieter world we now inhabit.Sometimes privacy and secrets are good things.<h2 id="5df4">What is a “serial story prompt?”</h2>This story is part of an experiment.Th

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is prompt will now be turned over to other authors who have signed on for the experiment. I tag witty insightful <a href="undefined">Christopher Robin</a>. After that, accomplished author <a href="undefined">Ellen B. Marshall</a> (2020 Pushcart Prize nominee) will weigh in.It’ll be Chris’s, then Ellen’s, task to create a story in response to the prompt in this story’s title. Chris will publish his story linking it to mine. Ellen will in turn link her story to Chris’s and tag another in our little band of merry men and women, who will, in turn, do the same. And so on and so forth until we wrap up this serial prompt and start another.If you’d like to join in, please let me know at <a href="undefined">Michael Burg, MD</a>. If this writing experiment works for you, please let me know that too. Ditto for if it doesn’t.Please look for, and read, part #2, #3, and more, as this serial story prompt evolves.Current members of the “serial story prompt” team include: <a href="undefined">Michael Burg, MD</a>, <a href="undefined">Christopher Robin</a>, <a href="undefined">Ellen B. Marshall</a>, <a href="undefined">Melissa Bee</a>, <a href="undefined">Ryan DeJonghe</a> and <a href="undefined">Tina L. Smith</a>.</article></body>

AN EXPERIMENT

If Everyone Knew Everything About Everyone Else Always, What Would Our World Be Like? (A “Serial Story Prompt” — Part #1)

More noise in my head

**This is one possibility.** Photo by George Pagan III on Unsplash

Let’s narrow it down a bit so that it’s limited to those people you are interacting with at the moment. Otherwise the voices in your head would be deafening!

But the basic idea — that you’d know EVERYTHING about all those folks ALL THE TIME — stands.

What would that world look like?

Here’s a version. As you’ll see shortly, there are about to be multiple iterations of this fanciful new reality.

It would be much noisier

Already, when we’re interacting with others, or even just one other, we’re flooded with data. There’s the environment at large and all of its sensory input, but there also all the messages coming from the person(s) before you.

What do they sound like, smell like, taste like, look like, feel like? All dependent on how you’re interacting and what you’re doing. What are they saying? How are they saying it? What language are they speaking? Are they providing non-verbal cues? (of course they are). I could go on and on, but you get the picture.

In a world where you knew EVERYTHING about the person(s) before you, there’d be A LOT, a heck-of-a-lot more information to process.

In a word … noisier.

All their memories and unexpressed thoughts, and feelings and fears and joys and distractions and plenty more would suddenly be yours in a sense. You’d have to filter and process all that info while attending to the relatively simple matter of communicating with them.

I’d like to step into that world for a moment. Try it out. See what it feels like. Experiment with it and see what I’d learn. But, I’d like to keep the option open of going back, back to the much simpler and quieter world we now inhabit.

Sometimes privacy and secrets are good things.

What is a “serial story prompt?”

This story is part of an experiment.

This prompt will now be turned over to other authors who have signed on for the experiment. I tag witty insightful Christopher Robin. After that, accomplished author Ellen B. Marshall (2020 Pushcart Prize nominee) will weigh in.

It’ll be Chris’s, then Ellen’s, task to create a story in response to the prompt in this story’s title. Chris will publish his story linking it to mine. Ellen will in turn link her story to Chris’s and tag another in our little band of merry men and women, who will, in turn, do the same. And so on and so forth until we wrap up this serial prompt and start another.

If you’d like to join in, please let me know at Michael Burg, MD. If this writing experiment works for you, please let me know that too. Ditto for if it doesn’t.

Please look for, and read, part #2, #3, and more, as this serial story prompt evolves.

Current members of the “serial story prompt” team include: Michael Burg, MD, Christopher Robin, Ellen B. Marshall, Melissa Bee, Ryan DeJonghe and Tina L. Smith.