This article feels 10 years too late. This might have been a reasonable article before the collapse of cryptocurrency, the invasion of Ukraine, and the geopolitical jockeying with China.
The real world (the Atoms as the articles call it) always has a way of coming in.
Even the most hardcore digital people have a significant percentage that want to have a partner and have kids. Kids are very much Carbon.
I don’t think there is as much of a separation between the Atoms and Bits with regards to people and that most people live in the physical world and see the digital world as just an extension.
Srinivasan whom the article references a lot, looking at his startups, seems like a world class BS’er who has made a lot of money in the Atomic world hyping up the digital world.
The real world (the Atoms as the articles call it) always has a way of coming in.
Even the most hardcore digital people have a significant percentage that want to have a partner and have kids. Kids are very much Carbon.
I don’t think there is as much of a separation between the Atoms and Bits with regards to people and that most people live in the physical world and see the digital world as just an extension.
Srinivasan whom the article references a lot, looking at his startups, seems like a world class BS’er who has made a lot of money in the Atomic world hyping up the digital world.