Yes, at least to start with. That is, a mapping from familiar physical objects to virtual ones will help a lot of people get started, and in some cases may make

Yes, at least to start with. That is, a mapping from familiar physical objects to virtual ones will help a lot of people get started, and in some cases may make them more productive, in the same way that the desktop with manila files became how we thought about GUIs. The challenge is what is the lowest friction metaphor. A house ? A tree? A neighborhood of streets? Secondly, all metaphors must eventually give way to a new conception of operation to realize the power of the thing. Manila folders don't cut it when you think about symlinks, loopback mounts, serialization, and all the gazillion other ways we use files now. in the metaverse we might start with houses, or plazas, but it can't be where we stop.