I should be clear that I don't see "living in VR" as a desirable alternative for touching grass. I just struggle to see how else people will be able to build trust and organize in a fractured world.
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Interesting words.
Nostr is the permissionless town square.
I'm not sure if the world is as fractured as it seems to be. In any case, we're doing our best to build freedom tech for all. 🫡🧡
The Japanese anime "Ghost in the Shell 2045" depicts that conflict will cease to exist if each person simply enters a separate VR space and is immersed in memories. Many Japanese are already so divided and isolated that I can't think of a way around this problem.
Fractured is decentralized, and political arbitrage due to "a fractured world" is what save you. Monopolistic non-opposed power is the devil, even when is temporarly capable of do good things.
Being involved in cryptocurrency, the one of the biggest issues with organizing is sharing accurate, sensitive information across sometimes diffuse, decentralized spaces - especially surrounded by bad or even malicious actors.
Nostr seems like an interesting solution but we kind of might benefit from a decentralized AP news wire with multiple... inputs and outlets? A way of sending out 'accurate' information - maybe bundled with supporting documents?
Of course that is more than likely to be an incredible nightmare to build and easily, horribly, horribly misused and abused but it might be a useful 'in case of emergency' feature...?
Just thinking out loud...
Ghost in the Shell also predicted the invention of "sustainable war" as an economic model, though, so it's not exactly an optimistic vision. I preferred Stand Alone Complex.
As to your point out being divided and isolated, I think it's a universal problem now, not just Japan. Most human interactions today seem to be mediated by a pane of glass. When I lived in Japan, I remembered that on the train to Tachikawa, it felt like every face was looking down towards a phone. But it's the same in Moscow. It's the same everywhere.
Even in restaurants, you witness couples that aren't looking at each other — they're both looking at different apps. Sharing distance.
I'll also review some of the older Ghost in the Shell films.
Friends, family, lovers, no one is looking the other person in the eye and having a conversation.
Do you have a good vision for these issues?