The movie and TV tech we actually want to use

One way to think about the tech industry is just as a series of people trying to build stuff they saw in movies. Ready Player One helped kick of a flood of interest in the metaverse, despite the movie's deeply dsytopian undertones. If you've talked to anyone working in AI, they've surely told you about the assistant in Her, despite that movie's dystopian undertones. From the gesture interface in Minority Report to the hand-phone from Total Recall to just about everything from Back to the Future and Star Trek, you really can't underestimate how important and inspirational these movies and shows are to the tech imagination.

On this episode of The Vergecast, a bunch of us try to figure out which tech we actually want to use. David is joined by The Verge's Allison Johnson, Jennifer Pattison-Tuohy, Mia Sato, and Victoria Song - aka the hosts of Hot Girl Vergecast Summer, coming to a feed near you for the next couple of months - to draft their way through the movie, show, and game tech they'd want to make real.

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There are only a few rules in the draft. Rule No. 1: You c …

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