There’s just nothing particularly photogenic about the News Feed and its constant, imperceptible updates.
Then again, Zuckerberg arguably does that already.
That controlling virtual reality, in other words, is only a step from controlling reality itself. And you’re reminded, from Zuckerberg’s awkward semi-smile, that the man who owns the bubbles also owns what’s in them.
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The communality of a conference (literally from conferre, “to bring together”) is thrown over for a series of hyper-individualized bubbles. But the photo suggests something quite different: Hundreds of people share a physical space, but no perception, no experience, no phenomenological anchor. Zuckerberg has said that, in his vision for the future, these virtual experiences will be fundamentally social. It looks like “1984,” they say, or that 1984 Apple ad it reminds them of “The Matrix,” in which humans grow in amniotic pods and experience the “world” via a plug in their heads. Much later, people on the network that Zuckerberg invented will start passing this photo around. Later, when the assembled journalists take the headsets off - they’re Samsung Gear VR headsets, for the record, and this is the Mobile World Congress in Spain - they’ll be amazed to realize that Zuckerberg is there they’ll rush him for quotes and photos onstage. He’s striding past his peons, heel-toe down the carpeted center aisle, as they swivel and grimace, oblivious to his presence, in their own virtual realities. In the photo, Mark Zuckerberg is half-smiling, dazed, as if he can’t quite fathom the spectacle he has achieved. A photo of Mark Zuckerberg walking with a slightly inhuman smile on his face, past a sea of people wearing virtual reality headsets, has caused a stir online.
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