Reality Privilege and Living Your Life Online
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How Virtual Reality, Gaming, and Crypto Pave the Road to the Metaverse
This is a weekly newsletter about how culture and technology intersect. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, subscribe here: There’s a trend on TikTok where people overlay Alicia Keys’ soaring vocals from “Empire State of Mind” onto stunning footage of New York’s skyline. As you watch skyscrapers glimmer, you hear the lyrics: “Baby I’m from Newwwwwww Yorkkkkkkkkkk, concrete jungle where dreamsssss are madeeeee of.” It’s hard to watch these videos and not fall in love with New York. Because this is TikTok, people immediately began to parody these videos. It became popular to…
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