This is directly in line with Palmer Luckey’s (Oculus Rift cofounder) very Trumpist vision of giving the VR to poor folks in poor countries to let them pretend that they are in lovely first-world California, and that awful reality outside doesn’t really exist or even matter.
I highly respect Peter Diamandis, follow his podcast and try to read everything he has to write, but some of those things make me very uneasy.
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