You can also port some of Teralogos News for Transhuman Space. Also see Spaceship Troopers, commercials/news in those films are iconic. "Do you want to know more?", "Buy newest music album of our Admiral, support war effort!" and like :) There are news of special note, specific to EP. It could be: 1.news on research on Old Earth history and society - kind of Discovery Channel materials on attempts to sort through data corruption and falsification during the Fall and reestabilishing the connection to the Earthly roots 2. news about developments in various VR worlds 3. weather would cover solar events and other space conditions Note that since those news are served by some media hypercorp it should be severely skewed by hypercorp propaganda.

Something i liked about altered carbon was that the author drew distinct lexicon surrounding death. As normal just died is now ambiguous irreparable organic damage or morphological damage for when the person is restorable from back up may be in order.

Keep in mind that nearly every transhuman has a Muse. Muse can preemptively scan headlines, enter clickbait ones and (based on previous usefulness of such articles to its user) score article as worthy or unworthy attention, even hiding unworthy ones from user's view. I think that after years of using hirs Muse, the user will trust its judgment. In such setting using clickbait would be ineffective or even counterproductive.

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Keep in mind that nearly every transhuman has a Muse. Muse can preemptively scan headlines, enter clickbait ones and (based on previous usefulness of such articles to its user) score article as worthy or unworthy attention, even hiding unworthy ones from user's view. I think that after years of using hirs Muse, the user will trust its judgment. In such setting using clickbait would be ineffective or even counterproductive.

Doesn't stop endless armies of advertisers from damn well trying, though. They might word articles that seem friendly towards dominant memes in any given habitat but really have some other kind of purpose, such as advertising. High profile celebrities might say things that people would pay attention to if they were following him or her. Imagine something voiced by the Eclipse Phase version of J.K. Simmons or, well, J.K. Simmons: "Hey there trailers! You know I love food. You'd know that from my last role as John Millions in last year's [i]Starfall II: Rise of the Thunder[/i], or from my numberless cooking recipes you oughta try at home! But let me ask you some things. Tired of eating the same crap your fabber throws at you? Eating out but bored out of your ego at the distinct lack of interesting visuals? 'Well Simmons, I can just use my mesh inserts and make this restaurant seem like we're eating on a beach!" Well you could do that. OR you could eat at Endrado's Pizzeria, located in [enter address here] in Valles-New Shanghai! 'Simmons', you say, 'are you selling out? Why sponsor Endrado's Pizzeria? The bastard who owns the place isn't wealthy and his rep scores are [i]merely[/i] average!' I'll tell you what viewers: yes, I am selling out. I'd sell out if it meant making sure as many people know about Endrado's mouth-watering foodstuffs! [Cue several minutes of talking about how delicious Endrado's Pizzeria pizza is, how you're served by real waiters and not merely given an AR menu, and most importantly, how [i]cheap[/i] it is.] You call yourself a loyal trailer of me, J.K. Simmons? Then come on over and give this guy your money! Know what he'll give you in return? [i]DAMN GOOD PIZZA[/i]"! The first person to tell me that "cheesy or over the top commercials are dead in the transhuman future" will forever be known to me as "the person who likes turning people off to fun".

How many cats do you think there are in the transhuman volume? Every single one of them is having all of their activities logged in real time. And every single one of them has a social rep. There's probably a CatRep network just for cats doing adorable things, and entire news media venues that present all major news events in the context of how they are relevant to adorable cats. "New Exoplanet revealed in lavish presentation ceremony; Unclear is atmosphere amendable to cats" "Hypercorp CEOs' cat rumored pregnant, Stock rise tied to possibility of kittens?" "This adorable kitten spotted during recent XP Broadcast of famous socialite! Find out all about it"