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Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death?
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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Feb 19, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Megan Garber, staff writer at the Atlantic, joins Offline to explain how we’re already living in the Metaverse––not with headsets and legless avatars, but via a continuous stream of immersive entertainment. Jon and Megan discuss how our internet jargon, scandal-to-miniseries pipeline, and former reality TV president all reflect a blurring of fact and fiction. And they ask: when everything becomes entertainment, what remains of our reality?
Released:
Feb 19, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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