The reason the metaverse concept is so appealing to corporations is that it’s a vision for the ultimate company town. Everything is controlled by the corporation, what you buy, where you live, even the space in which you exist (virtually for now) is up for grabs.
It would be good to be skeptical of any metaverse vision that is tightly controlled by a for-profit institution. Especially one like Facebook.
Read The Metaverse is Bad in the Atlantic.
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With so much of our time spent with computers and the internet, we ought to think about the quality of our digital lives. What makes for a good digital life? How do you achieve it? What should we do to improve it?