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Nov 18, 2021Liked by Rob Spiro

I hope too!

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"Google could have chosen one or the other (and still can), or defined some compelling third option, but it has not yet happened." Look like you had one suggestion to give about it.

New experiences: virtual death, virtual success as if anyone could be a president somewhere. It can exist.

As a virtual person, the immersive part is more relevant than the physical identity. That changes brain conditioning. It is theoretical.

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Thank you for this Rob! You've given us much to chew on and it's beautifully written. Noted also that posting this comment required encoding myself on substack...

Re: 10-15% in virtual worlds today, does that really hold true for the youngest generations? My intuition is that market penetration is trending up inversely with age demographics but this could be skewed by my vantage point from inside the Silicon Valley distortion mirror.

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Beautiful articulation of the technology paradox. Thanks for writing this!

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