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Let us connect some dots. 👀 Five years ago, Facebook acquired VR pioneers Oculus for $2 billion. This week, it snapped up neural-interface pioneers CTRL-Labs for somewhere north of $500 million, and announced that its own massively multiplayer shared universe Horizon will launch early next year. Their big multibillion-dollar bet, 💰the vision floating in Mark’s crystal ball,🔮is this new frontier called “cyberspace” or “the Oasis,” borrow from READY PLAYER ONE, a copy of which was once issued to every new Oculus Gaming employee. , in other words, and/or maybe , which combines our real world with virtual artifacts. Of course, "mixed reality" isn’t Facebook’s only vision of the future. It’s just one of their bets. Another is to essentially pivot from social-media advertising to messaging and transactions. You have to grudgingly admire their willingness to explore abandoning their current fantastically successful business model in favor of the untried and untested. Anything to disrupt the innovator’s dilemma. Keep reading this week's Crunch Special 👉 https://buff.ly/2m8kR9A 🗞 to find out Facebook’s plan for our post-web future.

Facebook’s plan for our post-web future – TechCrunch

I really wish I hadn’t had cause to write this piece, but it recently came to my attention, in an especially unfortunate way, that death in the modern era can have a complex and difficult technical aftermath. You should make a will, of course. Of course, you should make a will. But many wills only dictate the disposal of your assets. 💰What will happen to the other digital aspects of your life, when you’re gone? There are several good guides to “digital wills” and one’s “digital legacy” out there, including handling your Facebook and Google accounts, do you administer a Slack workspace? What about any you might personally hold? 🤔 Keep reading this week's Crunch Special 👉 https://tcrn.ch/2LNeBhv 🗞to learn how to get your digital affairs in order. 👀 (LastPass/ 1Password)

Please get your digital affairs in order – TechCrunch

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