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There will never be a metaverse! The amount of electricity and device manufacturing required for it to exist at scale will likely exhaust our capabilities as a
by sushsjsuauahab 5y ago
There will never be a metaverse! The amount of electricity and device manufacturing required for it to exist at scale will likely exhaust our capabilities as a planet and lead to yet more conflict and strife.
- wussboy 5y agoAnd that strife will be in the real world. The thing about “real” is that it always wins over “virtual”.
- sushsjsuauahab 5y ago100%. The virtual world is actually a very fragile thing.
- petre 5y agoJust turn off the electricity and it's gone. Imagine what a solar flare could do.
- sushsjsuauahab 5y agoElectricity, lack of physical hardware (which in turn depends on electricity, raw materials, labor, transport), lack of security... the dependencies are all entangled and circularly dependent, like Facebook's data center ;)
- jimmySixDOF 5y agoMy take is almost the complete opposite. In the Metaverse, you can spin up a office building for an unlimited number of users who can access from across the globe. Please compaire that use case, and so many more like it, to the real world alternatives in terms of resource consumption. It's an economy of infinite bits, not limited atoms.
- dragonwriter 5y agoBits are not unlimited; entities in a virtual world consume real resources, which are finite and have cost.
- sushsjsuauahab 5y agoWhile it is true that concrete and steel cost resources as well, in a resource constrained world, we will use what we already have in place as these things are quite durable. I don't envision a future of mega skyscrapers and bullet trains, nor do I envision a world of Oculus clad employees driving a virtual forklift. Rather I view the world continuing to exist as we currently have it: forklift driver is prompted by his UI to go to the next location to physically grab an item.