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Life at the end of the metaverse
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/73949/life-at-the-end-of-the-metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake
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You're Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype
https://peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype/
By Lee Vinsel
I'm reposting this essay I wrote in 2021 because the online blogging platform Medium has apparently changed its policies and people are having trouble accessing the original. Hopefully, I'll find a better, more durable solution soon. I'm reposting it unaltered, even though I would unsurprisingly do some
Added 1 month ago
My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s ยท Gwern.net
https://gwern.net/improvement
A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.
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Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/nft-metaverse-ai-weirdos
NFTs, the metaverse and AI are the most recent Silicon Valley enthusiasms. Does anyone remember how to build a consumer product?
Added 2 months ago