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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Sill via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] virtual travel<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 9:58 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> OK so now we can see that it isn’t a good idea to join a tourist stampede and won’t be again in the easily foreseeable. So how can we compensate for that? I can imagine a form of virtual tourism which not only mimics the experience, in some ways it exceeds it… A virtual tour could answer that. Being there would merely give you practice mooing.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=virtual+museum+tours">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=virtual+museum+tours</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-Dave<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK cool thanks for that Dave.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This suggests the next question. As we temporarily suspend our civilization, of course the economy takes a lightning-bolt hit, even as we discover far more efficient new ways to take care of our necessities.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>How much of our economy is completely dependent on inefficiencies? I am already seeing the answer to that in our education system: most of it. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Do let us focus on education as a sub-economy. We can already see that most of the time spent in physical school is mostly a waste, if we consider education as the primary desired end-state. Is it? If so, virtual education is available, has been for a long time and is vastly superior to anything the students can get in school, along with being far cheaper and safer. Socialization is more difficult if done virtually of course.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The teachers union is not liking this one bit, for perfectly understandable reasons.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am doing a project for our local superintendent: collecting parent-eye view feedback on virtual learning. The one overwhelming message coming thru loud and clear: the academically rich are getting dramatically richer, the academically otherwise are getting little or nothing. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sal Kahn started his online Academy as a humanitarian effort to close the global academic achievement gap. The gap he hoped to narrow and bridge with the virtual classroom opens to a yawning chasm.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>