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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…

3 min readAug 10, 2022

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Relationships on the Embodied Internet

3 min readAug 9, 2022

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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…

3 min readAug 8, 2022

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Avoiding Groupthink on the Embodied Internet

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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…

3 min readAug 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…

3 min readAug 4, 2022

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The Embodied Internet: Using Scarcity to Scale

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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…

3 min readAug 3, 2022

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The Embodied Internet: Community Over Commerce

Written with Pamela Jaber

3 min readAug 2, 2022

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The Embodied Internet: Community Over Commerce

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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…

2 min readAug 1, 2022

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What is the embodied internet?

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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…

2 min readNov 29, 2021

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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…

3 min readNov 8, 2021

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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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