WE’VE LOST THE PLOT
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/03/tv-politics-entertainment-metaverse/672773/
MEGAN GARBER notes:
In the future, the writers warned, we will surrender ourselves to our entertainment. We will become so distracted and dazed by our fictions that we’ll lose our sense of what is real. We will make our escapes so comprehensive that we cannot free ourselves from them. The result will be a populace that forgets how to think, how to empathize with one another, even how to govern and be governed.
That future has already arrived. We live our lives, willingly or not, within the metaverse.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/03/tv-politics-entertainment-metaverse/672773/
MEGAN GARBER notes:
In the future, the writers warned, we will surrender ourselves to our entertainment. We will become so distracted and dazed by our fictions that we’ll lose our sense of what is real. We will make our escapes so comprehensive that we cannot free ourselves from them. The result will be a populace that forgets how to think, how to empathize with one another, even how to govern and be governed.
That future has already arrived. We live our lives, willingly or not, within the metaverse.
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In the world’s testing ground for tech, K-pop
singers are being spun up out of pixels and doing battle in a virtual universe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/business/metaverse-k-pop-south-korea.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/business/metaverse-k-pop-south-korea.html