Otto represents the disconnect of techies. but despite this other angles of the show have interesting points). (And he represents the white fantasy of an emasculated asian male - especially when coupled with his sister who is getting increasingly sexualized with each episode as she interracts with the square jawed white male hero - another white-power fantasy about asians. He's the tech leader stereotype way overdone. If you watch the new show on Hulu Second Chance. They look at the cold hard future of a Cyberpunk novel and see a perfect heaven because they just see the wonder of the cyberspace and the cyberbody giving an 'escape' from having to be a 'meat body around other stinky smelly meat bodies'.Īnd yeah - as a bit of an OCD neat freak I get some of that, but not for the same reasons and I get that, and in fact myself also - crave social contact and physical contact with the world around me. the people running the tech companies see as Utopian. What so many of us, even many of us in tech itself, see as Dystopian. They truly do not understand why this image would be jarring to the masses. But mySpace succeeded in its mission and so failed in the public, Facebook failed in its missions and so succeeded with the public). But I'd posit that Facebook is where it is almost by accident of just happening to be the only provider of what it does when it came along (mySpace that it replaced was in spirit the same as Facebook intended to be: a promote yourself space. That's kind of funny considering that Facebook is supposed to be THE global community. The companies don't get that community is the value. None of the companies in tech get it when it comes to the users.Īll of what we see here has very limited practical uses. My thoughts kind of go along with what I posted last night in the "Sansar needs something special to succeed" article of yours.
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