If you've ever been let down by signal failure on your walkie-talkie as your friend, hidden in a nearby bush, tries to guide you through an argument with an angered partner, well you need worry no more. Along with the introduction of recent app Jelly, Crowdpilot enhances the role of human beings as online avatars in how it utilises the idea of a 'networked humanity'.

Created by Lauren McCarthey and Perceptor, the app allows you to select a situation, an argument, a first date, maybe a job interview, provide some background knowledge on it, select from either friends, strangers or paid assistants and await for advice to stream in. Though there is a sense of the individual becoming less and less independent, the app is not designed to be hyper-critical of our current times. Using the notion of a collective 'hive mind' to help us interact and build relationships, creator McCarthy argues, “we already ask the public to weigh in on everything we say and do on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Why not do it with our social interactions in person?