Who Can Build a Mask?


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What if someone made a model for Allegory that just filtered out the cars, walked you right into the road? Obviously it’s never happened to me but it’s one of the many little anxieties of a futuristic life. There are laws for that sort of thing: regulations about what can look like what. You’re not legally allowed to hide dangerous things. If your model makes someone walk off of a balcony or into a wall, they’ll come after you. There’s a certification process. It’s easy to install an unverified homebrew model if you want, but are you crazy?

I can speak a silent word and a genie living in a labyrinth of server racks a thousand miles away will transport me to hidden virtual worlds. Of course technology is magic. Put on your eyes and see the world as it is, haunted by spirits of our own making. For who can fathom the secret ways of a computer chip or a high speed wireless transmitter, or the million million facets of chemistry, plastics, and material engineering, or their juxtaposition with optics and lasers, microphones and speakers, and the mathematics of data? Who can build a mask, who can know the knowledge that obtains in this device? It would fill the library of Babel, it would crystallize into a tower that touches the heavens.


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