I Independent-artikeln ”What a scary photo of Mark Zuckerberg says about our dystopian tech future” skriver tidningen att Facebook-grundaren har sagt att i hans vision av framtiden är de virtuella upplevelserna fundamentalt sociala.
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Fotot togs av en besökare på Mobile World Congress i Barcelona, Spanien den 22-25 februari 2016. Zuckerberg promenerar längs 100-tals eller 1000-tals besökare som bär VR headsets från Samsung. Besökarna sitter helt inkapslade i sina individuella hitte-på-verkligheter omedvetna om den riktiga verkligheten och att Zuckerberg går upp på scenen.
”Mark Zuckerberg is half-smiling, dazed, as if he can’t quite fathom the spectacle he has achieved. He’s striding past his peons, heel-toe down the carpeted center aisle, as they swivel and grimace, oblivious to his presence, in their own virtual realities.”
Independent skriver att fotot på Zuckerberg fick många att associera till Orwells 1984 och filmen Matrix där människorna odlas i näringslösning medan de tror att de lever vanliga liv.
”Zuckerberg has said that, in his vision for the future, these virtual experiences will be fundamentally social. But the photo suggests something quite different: Hundreds of people share a physical space, but no perception, no experience, no phenomenological anchor. The communality of a conference (literally from conferre, “to bring together”) is thrown over for a series of hyper-individualised bubbles. And you’re reminded, from Zuckerberg’s awkward semi-smile, that the man who owns the bubbles also owns what’s in them. That controlling virtual reality, in other words, is only a step from controlling reality itself.”
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