Op-Ed: Mark Zuckerberg makes a 'mwahahaha' metaverse move (via latimesopinion)
Richard Rorty once wrote that Stephenson’s world representsIf you are rich enough in 2021 to acquire anything or any place in the galaxy, Stephenson’s desolate, hyperinflationary metaverse hardly seems to be where you’d park your zillion-dollar bills. And yet Mark Zuckerberg, the boy wonder of Facebook, no longer sees it as the stuff of fiction. He has opened his maw to consume it.And what again is he trying to consume? Possibly everything.
Whatever the new entity is called — and the current universe is abuzz with guesses — Zuckerberg has implied that it will exist to animate Stephenson’s grim fantasy. In the real world. Or what’s left of it.Zuckerberg is not the type to laugh like a cartoon villain —Facebook seems poised to drop the pretense that its network is just an extension of ordinary fellowship, where “friends” are analogous to real-life friends and “like” is a verb, not a collectible.
If Zuckerberg indeed re-creates Facebook as the metaverse, he might think he’s got the other overlords beat. After all, the metaverse, with its blockchain and illusory landscapes, doesn’t require building a spaceship that won’t blow up. And Facebook and Instagram already promise eternal life, in the form of our avatars, our avatar “friends” and our many creations in words and images that never digitally die.
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