Sentinel
Bionic Poster
I am an old fashioned guy. I prefer walking to cars and counting on fingers to calculators and those computer thingies.
Facebook to go Metaverse in 5 years
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Crocodile
G.O.A.T.
If innovation provides people with happiness and freedom that’s probably OK, but if it seeks to track, trace, control and dominate you, then that’s not OK, particularly if this type of thing is here to stay for the future. It’s how things are being applied that’s the issue.
I would be interested to see what consumers will do with FB and other internet applications.
Elon Musk doesn’t seem too happy with FB or WhatsApp and says he prefers to use Signal and Clubhouse. Has anyone here tried these applications ?
On another note, I Was watching a video from YouTube content maker called Jean Nolan, called, “Inspired”, and he is suggesting that sometime very soon, perhaps this year, there will be a total internet shut down and reconfiguration. He is suggesting that when it reopens you will need to have a digital passport to access the WWW including your online banking. Interestingly Australia is trying to pass a digital identity bill on October 28. However Jean goes on to say that the original designer of the WWW is already working on an alternative encrypted platform.
Anyway feel free to comment, it’s good to be able to communicate with all of you here on TW.
I would be interested to see what consumers will do with FB and other internet applications.
Elon Musk doesn’t seem too happy with FB or WhatsApp and says he prefers to use Signal and Clubhouse. Has anyone here tried these applications ?
On another note, I Was watching a video from YouTube content maker called Jean Nolan, called, “Inspired”, and he is suggesting that sometime very soon, perhaps this year, there will be a total internet shut down and reconfiguration. He is suggesting that when it reopens you will need to have a digital passport to access the WWW including your online banking. Interestingly Australia is trying to pass a digital identity bill on October 28. However Jean goes on to say that the original designer of the WWW is already working on an alternative encrypted platform.
Anyway feel free to comment, it’s good to be able to communicate with all of you here on TW.
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NonP
Legend
You can't post in an online forum like this and claim to oppose social media at the same time. If anything you're letting Big Tech dictate the terms when you grant them the sole umbrella category of "social media." There's no meaningful difference between Facebook or Twitter and TTW or even email in content, only in numbers.
Of course the sheer scope of FB does make things rather complicated. Not sure if y'all can watch this but Scott Pelley's 60 Minutes interview with FB whistleblower Frances Haugen is worth a look/listen:
One thing that floored me: FB has nearly 3 billion monthly active users. That's more than a third of the world population (2.8/7.9 billion, if you wanna be anal), probably second only to Google/Alphabet's market share. I knew FB was big but not Google big (I was thinking closer to 1 billion), which in light of the leaked internal documents is scary.
I think my gal Liz Warren is right to insist on breaking up Big Tech a la AT&T, but since that ain't happening anytime soon the next best step would be to simply enforce existing antitrust laws which seems to have gained some bipartisan traction.
What I'm not OK with, though, is the demonization of FB as the cause of our social breakdown when it is in fact an extension of this fracture. And as we recently saw in India social media can be a tremendous force for good. The medium is not the message. and willful misinterpretation of McLuhan's, well, message serves no purpose other than obfuscating the real issues while letting us off the hook.
Of course the sheer scope of FB does make things rather complicated. Not sure if y'all can watch this but Scott Pelley's 60 Minutes interview with FB whistleblower Frances Haugen is worth a look/listen:
One thing that floored me: FB has nearly 3 billion monthly active users. That's more than a third of the world population (2.8/7.9 billion, if you wanna be anal), probably second only to Google/Alphabet's market share. I knew FB was big but not Google big (I was thinking closer to 1 billion), which in light of the leaked internal documents is scary.
I think my gal Liz Warren is right to insist on breaking up Big Tech a la AT&T, but since that ain't happening anytime soon the next best step would be to simply enforce existing antitrust laws which seems to have gained some bipartisan traction.
What I'm not OK with, though, is the demonization of FB as the cause of our social breakdown when it is in fact an extension of this fracture. And as we recently saw in India social media can be a tremendous force for good. The medium is not the message. and willful misinterpretation of McLuhan's, well, message serves no purpose other than obfuscating the real issues while letting us off the hook.
Dedans Penthouse
Legend
. . Zuck's a zit that should be popped
Sentinel
Bionic Poster
Have you read The Neuromancer ?
Azure
G.O.A.T.
No I haven’t! Let me look it up.
Tshooter
G.O.A.T.
I can’t possibly make heads or tails of what you wrote but I’m curious what was your point linking to a 15 year old preliminary prospectus for a debt offering by the China Development Bank (CDB) with your advisory “look up what countries really are” ?
Do you have a problem with development banks? The CDB in particular***? General issues with loaning money to a China development bank? Was there something about this particular offering from 2005 ? I have no clue what your point or concern is. Assume I’m unfamiliar with topical conspiracy theories when explaining. Thank you.***Fixed income investors seem into it in mid-2021.
Fixed Income Investors Are Turning to Chinese Bonds
When it comes to finding yield in other parts of the globe, investors appear ready and willing to accept the risks.
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Sentinel
Bionic Poster
I prefer the metaworse in which Srsh is the top internet champion.
Azure
G.O.A.T.
That is La La land, rather Dali land
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
There are a lot of people worried in these forums for your prolonged absence.
Some were even missing you badly.
Please go comfort them saying you are back.
Sentinel
Bionic Poster
Full of unicorns, butterflies and spiral staircases and other schmaltzy stuff.
Crocodile
G.O.A.T.
You are back. Bit worried that something went wrong, unusual for you not to post for such a long time, we were about to send the search parties out to check you were fine. Hope all is OK.
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
Capitalism is better than ever. We love Trump. China sucks.
(Just want him to post moar)
Crocodile
G.O.A.T.
Maybe he was at a wellness camp being reprogrammed. We have a few of those built here now.
chrischris
G.O.A.T.
TD dito.
BeatlesFan
Bionic Poster
Nobody forces anyone to go on those platforms. I can't imagine being a teen and growing up with this nauseating sh-t and knowing nothing else.
guanzishou
G.O.A.T.
Microsoft gives you examples of how Metaverse works. Their product is called Mesh for Microsoft Teams:
We'll All Probably End Up in Microsoft's Metaverse
The company formerly known as Facebook isn’t the only tech giant trying to sell you on the metaverse. Microsoft is rolling out some new virtual collaboration features designed to make working in a virtual office less terrible or something. In Microsoft’s metaverse version of the office, you’ll...
www.gizmodo.com.au
