— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) September 24, 2016
1 Set aside how crappy "virtual reality" products are, whether already hyped and discarded or proximately in the "actual reality" pipeline:— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 24, 2016
2 When the Oculus "VR" CEO seriously promotes always-"eventual" Holodeck Heavens as reality retreats for immiserated majorities this isn't…— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 24, 2016
3 …just the usual conservative disdain of majorities from panem et circenses to plastic and television for the Washington Consensus.— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 24, 2016
4 A profound hostility to the finitude and sociality of materially lived experience unites those who declare profound the stale speculation…— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 24, 2016
5 …that we are already living in a simulation and the callous aspiration that consignment to life in a simulation would end poverty.— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 24, 2016
6 That such tech-talk "Thought Leader" coffee-house commonplaces are utterly facile goes without saying:— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 24, 2016
7 The fraud of WIREDs Long Boom died in global recession, the infantile techno-transcendental hype of transhumanism dies no less predictably— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 24, 2016
8 ...in gawky awkward toxic slave-made landfill-destined handhelds and VR goggles.— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 24, 2016
9 But it is the PRIOR poverty of sense and decency in the digi-utopians -- so consoling to us fearful, complacent, alienated ignoramuses --— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 24, 2016
Added:10 that demands exposure. The ugly obvious idiocy of wouldbe techno-deliverers and their deliverables has always been too blatant for words.— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 24, 2016
@dalecarrico Have you tried them? I tried 3 things on Thursday at an event. 2 of them were kind of impressive.— StealThisSingularity (@StealThisSingul) September 24, 2016
@StealThisSingul How many times must I observe the booster-to-bored techbrofashionista cycle before accusations I'm just closedminded stall?— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 24, 2016
Added:@StealThisSingul That said, hell, I like toys qua toys as much as the next queergeek, it's the techno-emancipatory scripture I disdain.— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 24, 2016
And, er, no, I am not surprised in the least by this morning's Daily Beast bombshell that "Palmer Luckey -- founder of Oculus -- is funding a Trump group that circulates dirty memes about Hillary Clinton" any more than I am surprised that tech-darling Elon Musk wants to privatize education and use environmental crisis as an occasion to sell Musk-boondoggles and turn the nobility of civic-spirited space exploration into space Vegas amusement parks or that brave intolerance-advocate and misogynist Peter Thiel wants to live in a lawless Randroid sooper-pirate island right off the coast of socialist San Francisco (to make sure he's a helicopter hop from working hospitals photogenic sexslaves and restaurants kept hygenic by nannystate regulators) and expects to live forever in a robot body in a nano-treasure cave when he gets home from celebrating Donald Trump at his authoritarian bigotpalooza Republican Convention. I've been watching transhumanoid and singularitarian Big Thinking luminaries and publicity hounds flog Machinery of Friedman market fundamentalist pieties and anti-democracy from Robin Hanson to Max More to Eliezer Yudkowsky to a host of assorted tech-talkin' gun-nuts and robocalyptic climate-complacent geo-engineers and on and on and on and on for years and years and years and years by now. No. I'm not surprised. Nor should any of you be: I warned you.
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