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gaming is not always fun. It can become addictive and the gamers themselves are not always to blame.

I checked this out on my Oculus Quest. The Quest has a passthrough feature, enabling you to see the real world once you get outside the virtual gamezone. However, that cannot be compare to 'real' AR goggles such as the Hololens. All of which means that inside the Quest the VR meetings are not holographic, but just VR - but even so rather interesting.

critical minds about blockchain and blockchain apps

We're doomed, AI takes over, and it's not Musk or Hawking who say it.

When to use Zoom, when virtual worlds, or a combination of both

"Yet buried in this scenario of a takeover of superhuman artificial intelligence are five assumptions which, when examined closely, are not based on any evidence."

I still have to read this one. Seems interesting, the political background of bitcoin. Not necessarily something which will make you happy.

Subtle art of not giving a f*ck

I feel like I'm likely a natural at this subtle art.

Whether you like Facebook or not, it's a major major force. What they do has consequences for who we are as homo sapiens.

Virtual communities can make the world a better place. or they can manipulate elections by spreading hate messages en conspiracy theories. Or they can manipulate the stock markets in a so-called anti-establishment frenzy, which is no more that a thin veil hiding resentment, hate and greed. Revolutions are not always pretty to look at.

Why do so many in the Open Source world prefer gift-style licensing (BSD, MIT, Apache) vs. share-and-share-alike licensing (like GPL)? Because the largest corporations control the dialogue and speak for the Open Source community, and it is to their advantage. Not anyone else's.

maybe one major country is ahead compared to one other major country, but this tends to make us forget that it is still behind 20 other countries.

Comparing TheBrain with Roam. There is also a second video about use-cases. It does not look very well for TheBrain.

I really think RoamResearch has some unique features and pulls it all together in a new way. Maybe that bidirectional links (subject of this video) are not unique, but the way they use unlinked references and play with the sidebar is pretty amazin.

"The future will like arrive in part by design and in part by disaster. Our challenge is to try to constitute the future through planning and community action, not have the future constitute us," said Alexander.

don't confuse this with node.js. This is about visual programming. The thing is not ready yet for public use, but it's getting there.

This is an interesting point of view which reminds me of the Solid-discussion we had. Solid allows the user to control her data and to have an overview of personal data. It also allows seamless integration of many information types and as such it can be used to streamline information at companies and institutions. So Solid could just as well be used to connect seamlessly many types of information about you and me. Maybe we could still consult that information in readable-but-not-writable form, but it would be of even bigger interest to surveillance professionals from states and private companies who probably would have to means to get this information in a readable and writable form.