Many socially shared VR platforms do a very bad job of reflecting the ethnicity of participants. This is not so surprising. Avatar technology is still in a relatively primitive state, whereas actual people are very complex.<\/p>\n
But that has gotten me thinking. If we do eventually get to the point where the sort of reality envisioned in Snow Crash<\/i> becomes the norm, then questions surrounding ethnicity might become different.<\/p>\n
Your literal appearance might matter less than your tribal identity. Ethnicity will be less about ill conceived responses to superficial genetical traits, and more about shared heritage and culture.<\/p>\n
If that happens, I wonder what that will mean for social, cultural and economic interaction between people with different ethnic identities. I hope, among other things, that it will level the playing field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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