Ashish Sharma
Internet economy
Millennials roaming cyberspace can make an economy sputter even further by not participating in Real Life
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Virtual policies
Real Life actors such as RBI try to manage supply of money to keep inflation in check
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Real Life more addictive than the net
Needless to say, Real Life is a very popular MMORPG
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Real life's Good and Simple Tax
Tax revenue could drain away if rampant GST-free activity takes place in cyberspace
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A toxin-free work culture
Uber has been in news for 'toxic work culture' and its CEO Travis Kalanick has finally stepped down
Ashish Sharma: The quicker path to riches
Virtual economies match talent and rewards better
Ashish Sharma: Great time to go live
Facebook must never have anticipated such frivolous behaviour on its social media site
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Ashish Sharma: Yay! Holidays!
This tight-knit community is highly vigilant against possible predators who consider the depressed fair game
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Ashish Sharma: The world of video calls
Screen blackouts, I later learn, are clever tricks rather than bugs to tantalise you into paying for 'undisturbed' streaming
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Ashish Sharma: Ancient internet
GooGoo is a popular search engine today, but many do not know that it has been in business since 1880
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Virtual office roleplay
It is weird to note that corporate workers - exactly the people being made fun of - are the ones running the roleplay show
Eye on the game
When I visited Twitch, the most striking part was the sheer number of people swarming on the sidelines, watching other people play
A how-to for everything
For most of these holidays, I keep myself from doing things by reading hundreds of WikiHow posts, and even using a dozen or so
Virtual disillusion
Every night after work, I would return helplessly to this website: I desperately needed a channel for my twinges, for my confusion
A meme for every mood
One the most interesting aspects of the topic at hand is the pronunciation of the word itself
The Pokemon conundrum
Pokemon Go is the first real success story of augmented reality technology
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Web monkeys
I even set up a gang called Web Monkeys, a group of hip, high-tech teens supposed to save the still-new internet from doom: clearly, computers were magical back then
Downloading happiness
After immersion into VR, I was fine for a few minutes but, while inching across the room, I started to expect a virtual grid to appear, so I could step aside, mentally, into a virtual space, even with
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