Awesome, thank you. I'll try and check it out tomorrow night. His book Who Owns the Future nailed Silicon Valley's disconnect and the massive contribution it made towards accelerating inequality.

This was amazing thank you. I totally recommend it to all the people who won't listen to it, because they're the ones that totally need to listen to it. :D

I've touched on this before but Jaron is a pretty good example of the phenomena of Silicon Valley's inherent neoliberal/libertarian-ness, I don't necessarily know how well those really define his view, but it's close enough for the topic at hand. I love this guy, he's incredibly insightful, but he's got this blindspot, like many of the old school hackers that I grew up looking up to do, where they would rather destroy government than fix it and if they could just open the market up a bit more everything will sort itself out. Like he even discusses that we had a choice about making everything free, but the advertising model we used to do it corrupted us, but he disconnects commerce's role in those advertisements so that he can ignore the socialist possibility of moving away from capitalism and how that may have turned out. I was very appreciative to Ezra for dogging on him about the inconsistency of that ideal in those examples of his.

As for VR, he is spot on. Wit the Pros and Cons, sadly. The niftiness he discusses about putting people in other bodies is a phenomenon known as Homuncular Flexibility. And it is awesome! :D

Thank you, midden, been having a shit week and this was a great way to unwind for a bit.