It’s Christmas in the Metaverse: welcome to your Zuckerbergian nightmare
by Matthew Cantor from Technology | The Guardian on (#5TBB7)
Holiday family gatherings in Meta's virtual world would probably include robot avatars and a digitized appearance by Mariah Carey
If you witnessed Mark Zuckerberg's unveiling of the Metaverse" this year, you'll be familiar with his utopian vision: a future in which we abandon our woefully outdated reality in favor of his virtual world. After all, what could be better than surrendering the very concept of observable truth to the man whose service has convinced your aunt that elites want to drink the blood of children?
The Zuckerbergian digital universe isn't quite ready yet, but with Christmas around the corner, we took an educated guess at what the holidays might look like under the incoming regime.
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