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Discussion on: Exploring the concept of the Metaverse and what it could mean for humans.

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

Or... an absolutely awful idea that will reduce real human contact, monetise even more of our lives, make technology more cumbersome (getting in the way of getting things done rather than assisting us), encourage retreat from the real world, increase apathy for real world problems, create more insidious ways for tech to control the world than FB already has, the list goes on and on...

I can see benefits to small applications of VR/AR - but an all encompassing virtual world through which you do everything online... nope, sorry Zuck - this is a non-starter as far as I can see.

Technology should be moving more into the real world, not retreating from it