Tech oligarchs are encouraging the creation of virtual worlds as a cheap way to avoid problems in the real one.
Can’t afford a real home but I got a VR mansion and the deed to the property is on the blockchain 😎
invest in second life
“People react negatively to any talk of economics, but it is resource allocation. You have to make decisions about where things go. Economically, you can deliver a lot more value to a lot of people in the virtual sense.”
Well that’s an ignorant lie
On the other hand, eating the rich in VR will absolutely desensitize people to eating the rich irl
Is it 2017 again? Are the elite really going to start pumping vr and ai driving again?
Self driving is different IMO it will definitely work in the future because it is not just a couple of US companies but the entire industry is investing and implementing it. European and Chinese car manufacturers are making their own systems. And then there are real profits to be made with self driving. Generaly people are right to hate Tesla but don’t mistake Elon for the entire EV and self driving industry.
VR is difficult to predict because it is only a couple of companies and the base use case is already quite niche you know having computer proficiency and money to buy one.
It is like imagine if Apple launched the iPhone 1 15 years ago at 1000 USD and required you to have a Mac in order to even use it, it would obviously be a massive failure.
It is like imagine if Apple launched the iPhone 1 15 years ago at 1000 USD and required you to have a Mac in order to even use it, it would obviously be a massive failure.
That’s almost exactly what a 1st generation iPhone cost in 2007 if you didn’t lock into a two year contract.
Can’t find a price without contract otherwise people say it was 499 to 599 and it was already mocked as too high, the only reason it reached 1k is because of the market share they got at one point they realized people are willing to pay much higher now that premium iPhone became a status symbol specially outside the US, that and a whole generation of fanboys who think smartphones = iPhone and can’t/wont use anything else…
