Yes we had SecondLife in the past, but the billions of new internet users that came online with the second Eternal September caused by internet connected phones

Yes we had SecondLife in the past, but the billions of new internet users that came online with the second Eternal September caused by internet connected phones don't know about it. Expect to see the same pattern being followed to the letter (virtual estate bids, token currencies, furries, character skins being sold at a surf prices, politicians and pop culture personalities trying to jump on the bandwagon, etc.), but with two big differences: it's not going to be a "thing that outcasts do", and it's going to be run by a company that wants your work to happen in the same place (as opposed to second Life which by definition was a way to promote escapism from real life); Facebook execs understood well that it's critical to make business believe it's ok to have meetings and business development running on their advertisement platform, to the point there's a whole chapter of the official keynote about this aspect. > ll just be a natural extension of the gig economy, some poor soul being paid .00000000001 bitcoin an hour to virtually dress up like a carnival barker and shout about the latest horrible news out of Syria on some virtual street corner. It's not going to be real people but scripted animations, Meta is a way to automate marketing so that even influencers are redundant (after ads and companies with their ads budget). Enjoy the second pre crash bubble and brace yourself for another 2008.