Read three quarters of the article and can’t finish it. I disagree with most things the author says. Just because something is crappy, silly, not quite technica

Read three quarters of the article and can’t finish it. I disagree with most things the author says. Just because something is crappy, silly, not quite technically possible right now, or all of the above, it doesn’t mean it won’t happen - in fact that’s how most of every days tech or big system starts!! (Remember how online communication was in the beginning online? Or playing tiny low resolution shockwave videos?). “The metaverse is bullshit because it already exists, and it's called the internet” - no, the internet (whose standards are still evolving btw!) is the platform, not the utility! Much like the wheels and an engine is not the car! The cultural changes in society to adapt to tech has accelerated and to say things like “ fictional virtual realities seem great on the page but would be hell to actually live in 12 hours a day” you’d have to forget how quickly we went from playing games in person to online, to shopping in person to online - hell even communicating in person to communicating so much online! The “metaverse” (as the name we call this upcoming second reality) will happen whether we like it or not! And for some marginalised or persecuted or impoverished groups that reality might even be a lot better than what they have in the real world today (and that’s what scares the hell out of me)