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VIRTUAL REALITY | Xiaowei R. Wang | Substack

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VIRTUAL REALITY dispatches from virtual reality Illustrations by Jason Li A series of loosely fictional stories that I wrote in 2020 upon reading a tweet from Paul Graham, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist. Graham’s nostalgic tweet about “the fun” people were having ten years ago made me want to know who exactly was having the fun and what was so fun about it. Maybe I’ll delete it later, who knows? Thank you to Jason Li for the illustrations. The come down “The future is the sharing economy!” You’re told this as you enter the door of a home in the Oakland Hills. A wiry man…

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