Here is a response to Matt Gurney’s post at The Line about Mark Zuckerberg’s plans for the “Metaverse”. Please follow the link below to the original post by Matt.
Mark Zuckerberg is not real. He's a piece of space junk floating through the metaverse. He's a frat boy who wrote a little app, it went viral, it made a lot of money, it attracted a greedy capitalist horde of cling-ons. Mark Zuckerberg is not a visionary.
For those who are having difficulty envisioning the visionary's vision: the metaverse, there is a perfectly well-developed prototype of the Zucker Berg floating towards its Titanic, it's called Facebook.
The idea that the metaverse is some kind of escape hatch for the Zucker Berg to launch its corporate enterprise into another realm of reality and avoid the consequences of the current iteration, is not visionary. Uncontrolled Brain Fart seems like a more appropriate characterization. Desperate, delusional states of greed: look! I'm hiding behind my finger, no one can see us now! Ah, sure boss, anything you say!
As Matt notes, all the elements of the metaverse are already here: VR, avatars and social networking. 'Second Life'! Remember that? Anybody? Anybody? I had to do a Google search using keywords 'avatar, life, world' to try to remember the name of the damn thing.
If you want to picture what the metaverse will be like, as a product of the Zucker Berg Galaxy, check out the prototype, Facebook, a warring world of porn bots. Why would the moral centre of the Zucker Berg as manifested in Facebook not simply transpose itself onto this new manifestation of imaginary capitalism.
As the posse closes in on the Facebook Fabricators, the Zucker Berg teases the world with the idea that, no global warming is not real, crime and corruption are not real, nothing is real, just snap your fingers, swish your magic wand, and poof, the Zucker Berg launches you into a swirling snow globe of fun and frolic, a vortex of wind and waves. Drunken dancing humanity aboard the Titanic meet your Zucker Berg!