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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by jungler on Monday January 07, 2019 @11:15PM (#18853093)
This observation is crucial to how we approach collaborative technology, though: the assumed goal has always been to achieve lower latency and finer granularity of changes to create the experience of simultaneous editing with instant feedback.

What this means in practice is that we have a lot of software that makes it easy to bring a group of strangers in to pseudonoymously vandalize a whiteboard by drawing dicks on it - a true "cacophony of monologues." See also: most comment threads.

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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by jacobolus on Monday January 07, 2019 @11:22PM (#18853124)
Having the technical capability to all speak/write at once is wonderful. It cuts friction in the conversation. (Think of the difference between a phone call and a sequence of voice memos.)

That doesn’t mean people collaborating won’t be taking turns as a practical matter, enforced by social convention.

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