Sometimes I wonder if we’re not focused enough on developing meaningful (and free) social spaces in VR. At times it feels like there is a fabric of “permissioning” being lowered over what were nominally public spaces, for previous generations. I worry that one day we will wake in a world where if you don’t have the right face, the right politics, the right cash — or more likely, card — there will be no place to go. Access denied.
Ghost in the Shell also predicted the invention of “sustainable war” as an economic model, though, so it’s not exactly an optimistic vision. I preferred Stand Alone Complex.
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