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Seems like we could head towards a world where people go to school from home, learn from AI, work remotely, get food delivered, find entertainment in VR. Apartments get smaller and smaller, until most people are essentially just renting a room in a large dorm, which they almost never leave.

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Exactly the world described more than a century ago in The Machine Stops, which I think should be required reading in all CS curriculums. Free to read here: https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/....

I'm 10 pages in and think it should be required reading for not only CS curriculums, and regret not having been exposed earlier.

Thanks for sharing.

No. VR is to the WWW what the WWW was to the internet. It will bring the rest of the world onto the net where previously only print, video, and audio were. AI will be the next UI medium. NLUI natural language user interface or SUI spoken user interface, somebody will come up with a better name.

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