"Virtual real estate" is a concept disproved by saying it out loud.
There’s no place like virtual real estate.
I mean, "virtual reality" is a thing.
So is fiction.
It's the invisible virtual hand of the free meta market.
Initially I had high hopes for VR.
(before I realized how capitalists were going to take over and completely ruin it like they do with every other single fucking thing).
Lawnmower Man 2 might have been a shit movie but the whole concept of dystopian capitalist VR cyberspace was actually not far off, conceptually
I remember in The Matrix (1999) there was some explanation about how they tried to create a utopia but nobody accepted it so instead they created the hellscape known as capitalist America circa 2199. You could have made anything and you made this garbage lol.
It's because it's the time period when the capitalists found the sweet spot of giving people a good enough life to not revolt, but not good enough to let them get ahead.
That's not what they said. They made the Matrix the 1990's, the pinnacle of human civilization.
In hindsight, it's surprising that Smith didn't namedrop "the end of history."
Morpheus refers to the scorched Earth using a line from Baudrillard. And IIRC originally made much clearer reference to simulacra, in a way that would have pissed off a generation of philosophy professors by being incorrect. I suppose they'd eventually recover by saying "It's more like Inception," because nobody saw Existenz.
Nice Video about the Metaverse: (From Golding Ideas)
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Nice meta-and you got that. It would be a shame is someone was to own it and charge rent.
🎶 "I-i-i just bought more land in the metaverse~" 🎶
