You’re Already Living in the Metaverse
Watching TikTok in Mumbai. (Indranil MukherjeeAFP via Getty Images)
Dave Chappelle is wrong. Twitter—and Instagram and Facebook and even this platform—are real life.
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The term metaverse, like the term meritocracy, was coined in a scifi dystopia novel written as cautionary tale. Then techies took metaverse, and technocrats took meritocracy, and enthusiastically adopted what was meant to inspire horror.
Originally appearing by name in Neal Stephenson’s classic Snow Crash, the metaverse concept has been rehashed in other…
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