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I like the reference to the book Snow Crash in which a metaverse environment gave people relief from a shitty world. This may be prescient: I think that the hum
by mark_l_watson 5y ago
I like the reference to the book Snow Crash in which a metaverse environment gave people relief from a shitty world. This may be prescient: I think that the human race will servive the next 100 years (and if we don’t, I take comfort in believing that the Universe is teaming with life), but no-travel low-energy use ways to work and play with even more entertainment alternatives may be a necessity.
I worked on VR projects for SAIC and Disney about 25 years ago, and as much as I criticize Facebook over privacy issues, I like Mark Z’s vision here, in addition to Microsoft’s vision of shared virtual workspaces and AR augmentation. Being an Apple fanboy, I also anticipate their future products and systems in this space.
I have been joking/teasing family and friends for many years that governments would fade to black and corporations would rule all. I am 70 and retired so it feels like being naked no longer being associated with a large corporation (I may un-retire). I am channeling William Gibson here, but affiliations to corporations may become the new citizenship. Entrepreneurs will exist to service corporations with new tech and ideas but with little chance of forming mega-corporations themselves.
- cweill 5y agoDid you mean "survive"? Because I enjoyed the distopian pun of "servive": living to serve to live to serve.
- mark_l_watson 5y agoI meant “survive”
- panarky 5y agoDid you mean "teeming"? Because I enjoyed the utopian pun of "teaming": all lifeforms in the universe collaborating somehow.
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- tobmlt 5y agoJust for a second (before I read carefully) I thought Disney and Science Applications International Corporation collaborated on a VR project 25 years ago. My brain went “I’d like to turn to butter now but I buy it: misquoting Twain, “only fiction has to make sense, not reality” plus you know, DARPA is a big place, and imagineering could be useful…”
- Abishek_Muthian 5y ago> Entrepreneurs will exist to service corporations with new tech and ideas but with little chance of forming mega-corporations themselves Sir, I've been alive for lesser years than your experience but this is already happening. Vast majority of new products and services each day are just tools which function inside mega-corporation's products. An entrepreneur without good network, funds are delegated to using API of a Big Tech product to build a product to solve some minor problem and eventually that feature would be rolled out natively crushing the product of that entrepreneur; Occasionally if there's good connections they'll get acquired. You've professed that you're Apple fanboy, I appreciate your honesty but Apple hasn't hidden the fact that they are trying to crush Spotify at every chance they get in favor of Apple Music. If a startup like Spotify which has all the support it can get from being cash rich has to put up with this, What chance does someone from a village have to compete with valley? It's not just new-age entrepreneurs, Look at News Media many who have survived for over hundred years even under colonizing forces are now at the mercy of Facebook, Google, Apple and many of them have already perished.