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Welcome to the Enter VR podcast. On this episode I'm Joined by the lovely and amazing Erika Barrazas! \n\nHere is a snippet of some of the things we talked about:\n\n30: Intro\n\n1:00 Triggered warning: 2016 election recap spoiler alert skip to 1:20:00 to skip the political propaganda commentary comrade. (cue the obligatory masturbation joke)\n\n3:00 Will virtual reality become more or less important in the next 4 years?\n\n6:20 How to create messages that will go outside of affirmation bubbles?\n\n9:50 The future of censorship under a Trump administration.\n\n13:00 How do we defend a dying democracy?\n\n17:00 Poverty is a lot scarier when you know what it can be like. \n\n17:20 Using virtual reality as a petridish to model different political experiments, with the goal to develop better government. \n\n22:40 Fake news is one of the many reasons why the election went a certain way.\n\n24:00 Social media has morphed since it first began. What will VR morph into in the next coming years? Does social media provide potential parallels?\n\n28:00 (insert skin color) power becomes a problem when hateful ideology takes hold of government. Wrestling with the freedom to hate one another. \n\n32:00 The American public is being divided and conquered. Being poor has no skin color requirement and Americans have a lot more common goals than we are led believe. \n\n35:00 Cults of personalities are dangerous. Please do not make this podcast popular. \n\n41:00 Can VR help us solve our crisis of apathy?\n\n43:00 What is the longterm psychological impact of having the "cure for boredom" in our hands? \n\n46:00 Natural vs unnatural interfaces.\n\n48:00 Rough seas ahead.\n\n50:00 Can suicide rates be good metrics on whether a technology is going in the right direction or not?\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave\n\n57:00 What does it mean to call yourself a professional? \n\n58:00 "My happy little evil."\n\n1:04:00 Asking for forgiveness can be easier than asking for permission. \n\n1:07:00 Business advice from Erika.\n\n1:10:00 Bad Audio up ahead, sorry! \n\n1:11:00 Education thrives on tools, Google Earth VR is a tool for geography. \n\n1:15:00 This podcast is not a place for political correctness. \n\n1:19:00 The need to start a drone security company. Will drones armies will be used against us?\n\n1:22:00 Cannabis edibles will make VR great again. \n\n1:26:00 Closing thoughts.\n\nThanks again to Erika for being a true scholar and lady of virtual reality.\n\nThank you for listening\n\n\nStay in touch with Erika with links below:\n\nhttp://evrealities.com/\n\nhttps://twitter.com/SV_SocEnt\n\n\n\n\nThe song used in the intro was \nSmallpools - Karaoke (Manila Killa Remix)\n\nPlease support the artist! \n\nhttps://soundcloud.com/nickraymondg/smallpools-karaoke-manila-killa-remix-thissongissickcom-premiere-free-download\n\n\n\nThis episode was recorded in November 2016\n\n(Views are my own.)