Business

Reality privilege

Is the digital world becoming a distraction from solving bigger issues?

08 February 2022

We’re reaching a strange tipping point. Up until now, technology and all things shiny, digital and ‘meta’ have been the domain of the rich and connected (puns intended) early adopters of the upper socioeconomic classes. There was a sense that being poor was synonymous with being ‘unbanked’, which, in turn, was synonymous with not having a digital identity or access to the wonderful web of hardware and software that connected the upper classes to each other.

Now, however, that paradigm is flipping. In the not-too-distant future, reality becomes the privilege only money can buy, while constant connection to digital devices becomes a sort of opiate (‘spiritual opium’, according to the Chinese Communist Party) for the masses.

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