Trend forecasters coin 'puregatory' and 'lifehoarding' to describe algorithm-shaped life
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Trend forecasters Rohit Bhargava and Henry Coutinho-Mason coin words including "puregatory" and "lifehoarding" in their book Future Words, due out next week.
The terms describe life shaped by devices, data, algorithms and AI. Guardian columnist Emma Beddington writes that the book's terms capture this life and proposes her own words for overpriced online purchases and guilty breaks.
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- The Guardian · AINewsNew words for anxious, algorithm-shaped life, from puregatory to lifehoarding
AITrend forecasters Rohit Bhargava and Henry Coutinho-Mason coin words such as "puregatory" and "lifehoarding" in their book Future Words, due out next week. Guardian columnist Emma Beddington says the book's suggested terms describe life shaped by devices, data, algorithms and AI, and she proposes new words of her own for overpriced online purchases and guilty breaks.
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