People spend one-third of their lives asleep. What if employees could work during that time … in their dreams?

Prophetic, a venture-backed startup founded earlier this year, wants to help workers do just that. Using a headpiece the company calls the “Halo,” Prophetic says consumers can induce a lucid dream state, which occurs when the person having a dream is aware they are sleeping. The goal is to give people control over their dreams, so they can use that time productively. A CEO could practice for an upcoming board meeting, an athlete could run through plays, a web designer could create new templates—“the limiting factor is your imagination,” founder and CEO Eric Wollberg told Fortune.

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Edit: someone else beat me to it, I cede to you my bruh

    • Sanyanov@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Exactly my point. When options for working more appear, there is more room for pressuring people economically, and they all end up working more.

      • HubertManne@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Its another reason I would rather be older than younger. My janitor dad owned what I would call a castle (it was beat up but huge. something like the begining of caddy shack where the main character lived) and my mom could devote 40 hours to a combination of housework and errands and managing the kids.

        • Sanyanov@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I’m afraid that if the things keep going as projected (and such technologies will help), our kids would be super envy of us having a mortgage-funded place of our own to begin with.

          • HubertManne@kbin.social
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            1 year ago

            I also see that. as much as I would love to have been born earlier I clearly see being born later is worse and worse. In my parents time part of the “dream” was to own a home free and clear. I decade or so back I realized young folks did not even understand that. The dream was warped to be to just have a mortgage backed place at all. It feels like now its the eternal mortgage that doesn’t do anything more but protect against sudden rent spikes. I foresee the dream becoming just renting a place of your own without roommates.

            • Sanyanov@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              The latter is already happening in many regions. Some people even try to look positively on it, but it’s clearly an “own nothing and be happy” mentality