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"'When someone seeks,' said Siddhartha, 'then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing. [...] Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.' " Hermann Hesse"

"As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy? Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines 'the useless class' and a new quest for purpose"

Goging beyond the words to the semantic meaning creating an universal language understanding. Stuff like that. Fascinating.

"improve the overall intelligence produced by the ecosystem. By providing means and channels to relate and transact value through relationships, platforms are the tools that are augmenting our global intelligence."

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.

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.