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Palmer Luckey's Plan to Give Poor Virtual Reality Gets Trump-Powered Viral Boost
That's just....wow @jomc @slhamlet pic.twitter.com/UJlAMCo5gh
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) September 24, 2016
Thanks to author Joanne McNeil and journalist Tim Maughan, my Wired article excerpt highlighting Palmer Luckey's plan 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 published by Wired last February, it provoked scarce a murmur. Like everything nowadays, it only garnered interest when Trump got involved.
Some favorite Tweets on the topic below:
Lots of people in my mentions asking why I'm surprised at this, in face of Marx, sci-fi, decades of TV as distraction...
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) September 24, 2016
...the surprise is at hearing a start up CEO saying it openly as though it's his damn business model.
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) September 24, 2016
@timmaughan @jomc @slhamlet Used to think this image was kind of cheesy; now ominous pic.twitter.com/voDFHMta9F
— Samantha Culp (@samanthaculp) September 24, 2016
@timmaughan @profcarroll @jomc @slhamlet As you can see, VR is indeed a great arbiter and usher in of unparalleled empathy.
— noise ↔ signal (@davidwolinsky) September 24, 2016
@timmaughan @jomc @slhamlet The Actual Allegory of the Cave
— #NeverFacePaulm (@facepaulmrevere) September 24, 2016
@timmaughan @thegrugq @jomc @slhamlet this guy watched the matrix and was like "everything was perfect until neo ruined it all!!!"
— Matt Shepherd (@2mshepherd) September 24, 2016
Erik Hurst agrees with Luckey's assessment that people in poorer real world circumstances switch to virtual worlds. https://t.co/3G3FzldTcT https://t.co/opc9wSqg7c
— Clay Shirky (@cshirky) September 24, 2016
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