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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 25
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    Tech is getting insufficient credit for the current situation response. This entire social distancing protocol made possible by social media, zoom, video games. Also streaming TV, movies. Everything you thought was bad for you is now saving lives. You’re welcome.

    10:29 PM - 25 Mar 2020
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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 25
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        Not to mention coordination to source masks and hack ventilators and stuff. And for those on Twitter, 1-4 weeks early warning. At the level intelligence committees were getting. You could have dumped stock and bought puts like senators. Not to mention lots of toilet paper.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 25
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        Walden pond is closed to prevent covid19 spread. Go back to your phone.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 25
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        I just bought an oculus quest. This is the answer. In 10 years we’d better have a strategic stockpile of VR headsets too not just ventilators. And a VR backup of entire world to live in while Covid29 happens. Including all public spaces. Alt earth. Pre-distanced mirror world.

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      2. Patrick Steadman‏ @ptsteadman Mar 25
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        I would argue that US tech sector has whiffed on two core specific responses (tracking, tests) and unintentionally laid foundation for the third (social isolation / remote coordination). Asian tech sectors seem to have done better with tracking and tests

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 25
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        Replying to @ptsteadman

        Tracking and testing isn’t tech sector in the narrow sense since health surveillance is too regulated for Silicon Valley style innovation playbook to apply.

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      1. यू पी का लौंडा  🇮🇳‏ @indianwhale Mar 25
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        Tech was never bad. Excessive tech was and will continue to be.

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      2. Mathijs van den Bergh‏ @vdB_Mathijs Mar 26
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        Reminds me of @PeterKolchinsky argument that spending on new drugs in undervalued because of the hidden optionality. The ability to do a currently unknown thing in the future is worth something in the present that naïve models do not capture.

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        Replying to @vdB_Mathijs @vgr @PeterKolchinsky

        Yeah, you don't have this very particular pill with this very particular chemical to practice off label until you have a label to start with.

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      1. Super Duper Ben  🧢‏ @onnahill Mar 26
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        Pats on the back and Attaboys will come later. Right now they’re being reserved for Doctors, nurses, grocery workers, warehouse workers and aid organizations. You know, the ones on the front line not getting paid enough who can’t work from home.

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      1. Dale‏ @The_Manshiff Mar 26
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        social media/gaming saving lives is a huge stretch. I would argue just FaceTiming/zoom are the life savers. There’s a big difference between curbing 2020 boredom and attention spans vs. socializing with loved ones, and fulfilling an innate human need.

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