Submitted by Herbert-2973 t3_10bpr3t in Futurology
Despite Zuckerberg's ambitions, not many people seem to care about the metaverse in the slightest, myself included. I think the problem is that he has the wrong approach to this. For the last few years we've been increasingly uploading things from our lives to the internet, like information and communication. You could easily think this will continue infinitely to the point where our entire lives exist online. But I think that's the wrong conclusion. Internet is, and should remain, a tool. We've seen the negative effects of people living their lives through the internet. It's not healthy. People don't want virtual lives. People still enjoy going outside, they enjoy talking, touching, feeling. What we should do is we should bring the internet to the physical world. We should use AR rather than VR. We should add to our real lives rather than abandoning them.
At least this is what I hope happens. Maybe Zuckerberg is right, maybe the metaverse is revolutionary and our future way of living. Maybe it's ahead of its time and we're limited by our old-fashioned thinking. We will see.