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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by jayd16 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:22AM (#35056295)
Snow Crash is a a dystopia because of hyper capitalism not because of the metaverse. It's like worrying about space travel because 2001 had a runaway AI.
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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by yifanl on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @02:00PM (#35059581)
The metaverse did empower malicious advertisements to selectively target people (and put them in a coma) in Snow Crash iirc, so maybe it's really just a pivot deeper into that side of adtech.
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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by pilarphosol on Thursday March 09, 2023 @01:41PM (#35084926)
True, but the reason there was so much demand to live in the metaverse is that the real world was so odious.
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