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Cortney Harding

The Embodied Internet: Avatars and the Ethics of Representation

At a recent event, a male tech podcaster and content creator was called in by the father of a trans child for dressing in drag in some of…

Aug 10, 2022

Aug 10, 2022

Cortney Harding

Relationships on the Embodied Internet

Aug 9, 2022

Aug 9, 2022

Cortney Harding

Avoiding Groupthink on the Embodied Internet

First, a quick rehash of “The Big Sort” and any of the millions of articles and books that have come after it. Basically, many in the West…

Aug 8, 2022

Avoiding Groupthink on the Embodied Internet

Aug 8, 2022

Cortney Harding

The Embodied Internet: How to Create Safe Spaces

The famously calm and balanced UK media has recently been all aflutter about the dangers of the embodied internet. If you can believe this…

Aug 5, 2022

Aug 5, 2022

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The Embodied Internet: Using Scarcity to Scale

Let’s say, for the sake of the argument, that you are in the market for a coat. You find yourself in Soho and have two options. One, you…

Aug 4, 2022

The Embodied Internet: Using Scarcity to Scale

Aug 4, 2022

Cortney Harding

The Embodied Internet: Small is Beautiful

Every few years, an old clip of Bill Gates talking to David Letterman in 1995 makes the rounds. In it, Gates tries to sell Letterman on the…

Aug 3, 2022

Aug 3, 2022

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The Embodied Internet: Community Over Commerce

Written with Pamela Jaber

Aug 2, 2022

The Embodied Internet: Community Over Commerce

Aug 2, 2022

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What is the embodied internet?

Somewhere in the midst of all the discourse, it hit me — the term “metaverse” had become too unwieldy. It embodied too much, and seemed…

Aug 1, 2022

What is the embodied internet?

Aug 1, 2022

Cortney Harding

VR is the discomfort machine — and that’s a good thing

“That,” said my husband after he went through our latest racial bias VR experience, “was super uncomfortable.” He said it almost…

Nov 29, 2021

Nov 29, 2021

Cortney Harding

The Metaverse and the Death of Text

Ah, the metaverse — the buzzword no one can stop using since Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote at Connect a few weeks ago. Coverage after the fact…

Nov 8, 2021

Nov 8, 2021

Cortney Harding

Cortney Harding

4.99K Followers

Founder and CEO at Friends With Holograms. Adjunct at NYU. Bylines Billboard, Ad Week. Speaker. Ultrarunner in my spare time.

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