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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.
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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.
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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I tweeted similar thoughts on Twitter. How they aren't a $50B co I have no idea this is the real-time pulse of planet Earth. It's basically our digital limbic system. How do you even start to try and value that? It might be worth even more in time.
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The time lag from Twitter's first postings about coronavirus to my apartment building admin posting physical warning posters about using public areas / gym is something I'm still thinking about. It isn't just a little, it's so far apart. Two months almost or whatever it is. Wild.
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