Forced isolation, ad fatigue, the desire to be recognized as a full-fledged citizen with rights in cyberspace, and some fantastic technology advancements are bringing us to the birth of the metaverse. It’s still just gestating.
The metaverse was supposed to be open, not owned by anyone, and interoperable between all platforms. Does that sound like Facebook to you?
Facebook is reported to be considering a name change. But its image will not be remedied by anything other than fundamental reforms.
Will Facebook continue wading into the quagmire of children’s digital content or double down on the next generation gold rush – the metaverse?
CEO John Hanke made waves this week by saying we should concentrate on building a better reality, not sleeker alternative ones.
Uncharted territory. The lure of the unknown. And just like with the explorers of yore, the course of history will inevitably be altered by greed, motive, and human error.
Today’s children carry the world in their pockets. The metaverse gives them the agency to build and shape that world.
In his 1992 novel “Snow Crash,” Neal Stephenson envisioned the Metaverse: a three-dimensional manifestation of the Internet in which people interact and collaborate via digitally-constructed avatars. In the decades since, technology has advanced to the...
