Zuckerberg and company talked up another supposed tech revolution four short years ago.

Zuckerberg and company talked up another supposed tech revolution four short years ago.

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Basically a Zuckerberg read or watched Ready Player One and decided he wanted to own that.

    They have put a ridiculous amount of R&D into it at this point but the whole metaverse idea doesn’t actually enable anything new or better than the existing paradigms.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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      2 days ago

      He probably read Snow Crash (or maybe an AI summary, because he is a soulless husk) and thought it was super cool. It’s a dystopia. The book is not aspirational.