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Re:Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the... by aswanson on Thursday June 08, 2017 @10:49PM (#14518848)
just look at the number of 'zombies' on the streets

Get used to the zombies...they are going to become far more prevalent. When Neuralink or whatever technologies converge to directly project experiences mind-to-mind, people will not be broadcasting selfies...they will be broadcasting self, as in their current, total sensate experience. People will tune in and live the most exciting virtual life that they need...while their physical sits decaying with saliva dripping from their half-opened mouths. The drug wars will come nowhere near as close to the holo-virtual experience tune-out that's rather near.

Re:Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the... by Bakary on Thursday June 08, 2017 @11:56PM (#14519077)
To be honest, many people live lives of "quiet desperation" so to them this doesn't sound much more dystopic than the cards they were already dealt.
Re:Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the... by aswanson on Friday June 09, 2017 @12:15AM (#14519133)
My statement was not meant to be taken as a judgement insomuch as a prediction of what's shortly to come.
Re:Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the... by ryan-allen on Thursday June 08, 2017 @11:00PM (#14518888)
Zuck looks pretty happy about it http://imgur.com/a/UL7HX
Re:Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the... by oliv__ on Friday June 09, 2017 @02:17PM (#14523261)
That picture is so sad.