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That book/movie was such a missed opportunity to say something meaningful about a VR future, but it just kinda doesn’t follow through. In part, it is what I noted before. It lacks any meaningful humanity. There is a narrative acknowledgment that poverty, personal reinvention, and power exist, but it’s paint on the wall. No choices were contingent on them. No sacrifices made in response to them. None of it matters.

Then also - there is little future in it. Immersive VR is almost entirely where the future starts and stops. Everything else is mined from pop culture.