Digital twins offer humankind the ability to command virtual replicas of forests, oil fields, cities, supply chains — and even, maybe one day, our very bodies.
I can see why this guy got a letter from from Ted. His idea of the internet fully replicating a human world I think would cause so much psychological damage to humanity. As if we aren’t lonely and Isolated enough this guy wants to give us less reason to leave the house.
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I can see why this guy got a letter from from Ted. His idea of the internet fully replicating a human world I think would cause so much psychological damage to humanity. As if we aren’t lonely and Isolated enough this guy wants to give us less reason to leave the house.
Sounds like a complete end to privacy as we know it