In an exclusive excerpt from Jonathan Taplin’s new book ‘End of Reality’, the author rejects the promises of our new class of oligarchs and their online libertarian fantasias mean…
and Aldous Huxley’s . The notable media critic Neil Postman wrote about the difference between the two books:
“It was the height of the Cold War, The readers—the young readers— if there was one thing they hated it was war, it was the military, or, as Eisenhower called it, the military-industrial complex. So I got a hero who represented that to the hundredth degree. He was a weapons manufacturer. He was providing weapons for the army. He was rich. He was an industrialist. But he was a good-looking guy and he was courageous . . .
To teach at a large university, as I did, is to know that most of the funding would go to STEM, and the humanities departments would starve. As Apple’s Steve Jobs remarked at the launch of the iPad, “Technology alone is not enough…It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our hearts sing.” But Tech leaders like Jobs have disappeared replaced by men like Zuckerberg who think the banality of Chat GPT’s poetry is “good enough.
The video game business continues to grow ; gross revenues rose from $34 billion in 2015 to $85 billion in 2021. Video games clearly plowed the earth for the seeds that Zuckerberg is planting in the Metaverse. They showed that people are willing to sit in front of a monitor for six hours in a fantasy universe killing people.
In making the decision to go all in on the Metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg has clearly been observing game platforms like Twitch and Roblox. In his view, if people will spend ten hours a day watching some guy play video games, getting them to spend seven hours a day in the Metaverse should be easy.
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