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Immersive technology won out over a variety of alternatives primarily due to low cost and the increased engagement it delivers. The leading alternatives were Web conferencing and in-person meetings, followed by phone calls.

Work-related use of the Immersive Internet is in the early adopter phase. Before it can pass into the early majority phase, practitioners and the technology vendors who serve them must “cross the chasm.” The most common barriers to adoption are target users having inadequate hardware, corporate security restrictions, and getting users interested in the technology.

war on subsistence

argued for the creation of convivial, rather than manipulative institutions, for universal and self-directed education and intentional social relations in fluid, informal arrangements

referring to already exhisting ideas of Everett Reimer and Basil Yeaxlee

Before even Internet was widely spread he wrote that the most radical alternative to school would be a network

The concept of vernacular

obviously for Illich the process of destabilization of the vernacular language was also the starting point for establishing control society through education

from the 80s Illich’s work has been often neglected for being too radical and controversial