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37. Sendhil Mullainathan Thinks Messing Around Is the Best Use of Your Time

People I (Mostly) Admire

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What's Your Big Vision for What Happens With VR?

The possibilities if we got this technology in the classrooms must be infinite. I've never seen them tackle a project with such gusto our oculus has been in use 10 to 12 hours per day every day and all that time is devoted to exploring the educational potential of the device. It's entirely possible that we can recreate that experience 100% with virtual reality which if you think of the knock-on consequences but let me give an example one of the things that people say is that the cell phone decoupled a phone number from a location suddenly the cell phone made it so that a phone number referred to you not the address that you were sitting now. If similarly your office location was not a

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