Can we celebrate the individual _and_ collaborate?

Continued with how there were positives to Swipe piece — you could have an influence of popular media but you could grow your interests or appreciation through this. Or depending on who or _what_ forms the algorithm for analyzing the results, could be an interesting new influence. But I also like the idea of this being not just customized but INDIVIDUAL. Only you would get to see this selection and you would not be able to see anyone else’s selection/curated show? What if the algorithm is a lie? What if everyone sees the same thing? Or what if you it just naturally happens that everyone has the same preferences and they all end up being given the same exhibit? Raises the question of how does it come to be that we have individual tastes? We share a culture, we share a genetic makeup [a large percent], etc.. So it would be probably a negative or at least a negative sentiment if everyone in a given culture only ever selects the same things and only sees the same thing in their results. But you could try presenting results that were not actually in line with what you liked, and maybe the presentation would ‘teach’ you to like new work? Would it promote the idea of us becoming more and more separate and we live in our own spaces and we do not have to talk or interact with other people? Is that a negative? Can we not celebrate the individual AND the collaborative?

It seems like once you promote an idea, it has be at the exclusion of every other idea. Promotion = exclusion.

I want to go back to these private experiences that I explored with the Portal. I said that VR helps me to ensure that privacy aspect and this would be a good solution to the swipe curated exhibit — no one else could spy, or see in to your exhibit. But I would still like the fingerprint part to ensure only you were able to get into the Space with the HMD.