Weirdly, my primary school has always held "race nights" in the local pub with videos of races, to raise funds for equipment. It always seemed a bit ghoulish to me.

And I was just writing a bit in the travel book about Japanese arcades where you can train and race horses in the Metaverse and hold race meetings with teams from other arcades...

I don't think the invisible battleships are going to kidnap things back to idea-space, I think idea-space is colonising us.