Life in the Metaverse – Tablet Magazine
The scale of Zuckerberg s wager has not prevented it from seeming utterly ridiculous to the many tech reporters and Twitter commenters who have mocked the Metaverse s schlocky sci-fi branding and sloppy execution. Mark Has Surrounded Himself with Sycophants : Zuckerberg s big bet on the Metaverse is backfiring, read the headline of a Vanity Fair article published earlier this month. Yet despite a rocky start and months of bad media coverage, Meta might still succeed by providing consumers with a virtual reality experience that whatever its pitfalls delivers a much-needed upgrade to the current architecture of the internet.
On the other hand, given that Meta s current business model is based on collecting as much user data as possible and then selling that data to third parties, it is possible that a successful Metaverse would plunge billions of users deeper into a dystopian hellscape where the dazzling simulations of the virtual world transform ever more aspects of human experience into profitable data sources.