I sometimes wonder if Alvin Toffler wasn’t prophetic in his 1970 book, “Future Shock.” Society, culture, technology, politics have become so complicated and so convoluted, that what we have created has grown beyond our ability to manage it.
"The comparison to Horizon Worlds is, I hope, fairly clear. If we take Zuckerberg at his word, Horizon Worlds is meant to be a digitally purified version of our current world. In a virtual space, there is no finitude, just infinitude; no necessity, just possibility." Exactly. Thanks for all of this. It's as if the release from physical vulnerability and limits in space amplifies or augments the human capacity for evil, sin, violence, in the form of interpersonal action. And really, isn't that also true in the form of online discourse in general where we are freed from physical vulnerability but released for symbolic violence against one another?
I sometimes wonder if Alvin Toffler wasn’t prophetic in his 1970 book, “Future Shock.” Society, culture, technology, politics have become so complicated and so convoluted, that what we have created has grown beyond our ability to manage it.
I love how you talk to the modern world and it’s meta changes and how things still relate to the truths mankind has learned over time.
"The comparison to Horizon Worlds is, I hope, fairly clear. If we take Zuckerberg at his word, Horizon Worlds is meant to be a digitally purified version of our current world. In a virtual space, there is no finitude, just infinitude; no necessity, just possibility." Exactly. Thanks for all of this. It's as if the release from physical vulnerability and limits in space amplifies or augments the human capacity for evil, sin, violence, in the form of interpersonal action. And really, isn't that also true in the form of online discourse in general where we are freed from physical vulnerability but released for symbolic violence against one another?