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David Foster Wallace on iPhone 4's FaceTime (kottke.org)
5 points by thekguy on June 8, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



This wasn't even the best part! Wallace in the full version describes how people end up getting so obsessed with their video-chat personae that they use fake masks and backgrounds. The masks part sounds nuts to us today, but already iChat has green-screening yourself into a tropical environment so maybe it is just around the corner.




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