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Every time I see something like this, I'm struck with the idea that Zuckerberg read Ready Player One and said "yes, that's make THAT future."
by nrclark 4y ago
Every time I see something like this, I'm struck with the idea that Zuckerberg read Ready Player One and said "yes, that's make THAT future."
- voz_ 4y agoThat book was garbage, so probably not.
- camdat 4y ago[flagged]
- rightbyte 4y agoThis short film comes to mind: (Uncanny Valley) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AvyUWUKCw8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AvyUWUKCw8
- spyder 4y agoAnd this will be the result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
- ydnaclementine 4y agoI think you mean the book Snow Crash, which John Carmack is a fan of https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1454230235847688200?lang=en https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1454230235847688200...
- nocarrier 4y agoIt was actually Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge that really got Zuck excited about the possibilities of VR—he read it a few years before he bought Oculus and talked about it a lot at the time.
- rsynnott 4y agoI suppose we should just be thankful he didn't pick up Vinge's "Deepness in the Sky" instead; it would be quite disconcerting if Facebook was trying to develop talking spiders.
- thealfreds 4y agoThere was a handful of novels and light novels that explored this concept easily a decade or more before RPO. It especially became popular sometime in the mid 2000s I remember a bunch of popular light novels coming out around that time. I'm personally imagining Zuckerberg as a .hack fanatic like myself and my brother were back in '03.
- tootie 4y agohttps://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/making-sense-metaverse https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/making-sen... These critics give that same example and a few others trying to prise open what Zuck and others are thinking and what it actually means for consumers