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Please let the pop take the tech bros with it.
They'll move on to the next big thing, just like they did after bitcoin.
And after NFTs, blockchain, the metaverse and so on
I'd love a gang of nerds doing the real metaverse, like Gibson showed us.
Yea but it comes with all the other stuff in Gibsons books
All that other stuff comes already, but I do not see it create the metaverse.
Let's stop giving meta credit. Metaverse is a shit name anyway. Cyberspace is cooler and it's still not that cool.
The metaverse is awesome, invented in the book Snowcrash from 1992. Its by Neal Stephenson, not Gibson, my mistake.
Facebook just stole the name and are making some crap.
Ok, fair point about it being in Snow Crash. I can forgive it a little bit now. I still don't love the name, and I think we should come up with something better for the eventual fediverse version of the same idea.
Yeah the name was cheesy even back then IMO but the concept was fantastic.
VRchat, the OpenXR format, and custom-built/3d printed VR headsets come to mind.
The metaverse was/is the stupidest thing ever. They couldn't even sell it to the average person. I'm into tech but even I can barely describe what its supposed to be. Is it just VR? VR office work? 🤷
Fucking ready player one, so yea. VR office work you can go to a mall in with ads.
What if we were pro-active, and trapped them by creating some bullshit "next big thing" and then just pocket all of their cash when they invest.
"You thought your money was going towards a space elevator, but little did you know, you've been single-handedly housing and feeding the population of six US cities!! Muahahahahahah!"
Diabolical.
How dare those awful people keep trying new things. The Internet was perfect in the 1950s and we should stick with it being exactly the same way forever.
Their "new things" have created a bubble that will chop the head off the US economy, and at the same time is directly propping up a fascist in the White House. Fuck them. I'd rather the Internet be frozen the way it was in 2006 than deal with this shit.
I'm visualising that scene from IT Crowd with the boss stepping out the window...
I wish. I suspect the mega-billionaires will be absolutely fine.