That's just....wow
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— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan)[To see links please register here]
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to give the world's poor a better (simulated) life through VR was shared last weekend by William Gibson, Clay Shirky, and a bunch of other heavy hitters. The funny (in a sadly ironic way) thing is, when it was actually[To see links please register here]
, it provoked scarce a murmur. Like everything nowadays, it only garnered interest[To see links please register here]
.Some favorite Tweets on the topic below:
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Lots of people in my mentions asking why I'm surprised at this, in face of Marx, sci-fi, decades of TV as distraction...
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...the surprise is at hearing a start up CEO saying it openly as though it's his damn business model.
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Used to think this image was kind of cheesy; now ominous[To see links please register here]
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As you can see, VR is indeed a great arbiter and usher in of unparalleled empathy. — noise ↔ signal (@davidwolinsky)[To see links please register here]
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The Actual Allegory of the Cave — #NeverFacePaulm (@facepaulmrevere)[To see links please register here]
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this guy watched the matrix and was like "everything was perfect until neo ruined it all!!!" — Matt Shepherd (@2mshepherd)[To see links please register here]
Erik Hurst agrees with Luckey's assessment that people in poorer real world circumstances switch to virtual worlds.
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