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@cstross @paezha yeah, totally! the point is that these anti-nerds are fundamentally uncreative

-- I was quoting the 'casters pointing out that the Cybertruck is from Blade Runner (1985) and the Metaverse is Ready Player One (2011) so I guess that "25" was Cory causally splitting the difference :-)

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**Speaker 1** (42:02):
That's this is just what Corey was just talking about,
right is. It speaks to the conservatism of the a
lot of these the detection once they've built a company
that's big enough to where you know, you're casting around
for your next thing because you don't actually want to
do any you know, real innovating yourself.

**Speaker 3** (42:17):
You you you outsource it to a sci fi novel.

**Speaker 1** (42:20):
That's why we've seen this this sort of generation of
of sort of wish lists from cyberpunk from the metaverse.
I mean that was just Mark Zuckerberg saying, hey, uh yeah,
let's let's let my next My next thing is the metaverse.

**Speaker 3** (42:36):
Then that comes from your your future is being a legless, sexless,
low polygon heavily surveyed cartoon character in a virtual world.
I stole from a twenty five year old dystopian cyberpunk novel.