Breaking news: the metaverse is not dead — just when you thought it was. Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t given up on the metaverse — he just changed how he talks about it.
At Meta Connect 2023, he said:
“Pretty soon, I think we’re going to be at a point where you’re going to be there physically with some of your friends, and others will be there digitally as avatars or holograms, and they’ll feel just as present as everyone else. Or you’ll walk into a meeting and sit down at a table. There will be people who are there physically and people who are there digitally as holograms but also sitting around the table with you. There will be a bunch of AI guys who are embodied as holograms and are helping you get different stuff done.”
It’s obvious he still has a vision for the future.
Science and technology will screw us all — if it hasn’t already.
Today, everybody keeps talking about the future, the future, and the future. Why the sudden obsession? If it’s not about Elon Musk’s project, Mars, one fenced country on the east coast of Asia, may have a robot apocalypse to tackle sooner than you may think (they want to mass produce humanoid robots to replace human workers). Again, it’s the future. Later we’re the ones who will applaud genius. Yeah, what a genius idea.
How absurd can we be?
To think that every billionaire or organization with an idea tagged futuristic and the financial buoyancy to make that idea come to fruition is called a genius.
Altruistic tech billionaires won’t save us, just as virtual reality won’t save the world. It’s only a distraction from the physical world — a world we are in the process of destroying.
We don’t need any more distractions.
There’s a reality staring at us — no amount of tech wizardry, not even alien tech can erase. Building houses on Mars won’t change the fact that our planet still has a climate crisis to battle, and mass-producing robots won’t cure the loneliness epidemic. I’ll tell you what we need. We need critical thinkers, people who will solve problems on a global scale.
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