The metaverse is a flying car. What I mean by that is: every once in a while we are promised that soon, we will all go to work in flying cars. But they never

The metaverse is a flying car. What I mean by that is: every once in a while we are promised that soon, we will all go to work in flying cars. But they never arrive. Powered flight has been a reality for more than a century- what gives? Well, of course, the problem is that when you put wings on a car what you get is not a flying car, but an airplane. If you run out of gas in your car, you stop. If you run out of gas in your airplane, you die. So that means triple checking fuel levels and filing flight plans. Cars drive on a road, in a predictable way, so they can be packed close together. Airplanes are just traveling every which way in the sky, so you have to have air traffic controllers. There are a myriad of ways in which the concept of a "flying car" is just a misunderstanding of the constraints involved. Same with the metaverse. The concept is reality, but virtual. And the thing is: when you take reality and put it in a computer what you get is not the same real world, just virtual. What you get is a totally different thing that has different uses. Segway made this same mistake. That's why the metaverse will fail. It's a concept based on applying the usage patterns of one system to a different system where they don't work anymore. Sometimes the opposite thing happens: everyone else is trying to make a flying car, and someone comes along and figures out that those are really airplanes. This happened with the iphone. Everyone else was manufacturing regular cell phones, but computerized. Steve Jobs realized that when you put a touch screen and a powerful computer in a phone, what you have is a new and different thing that has new and different uses. It goes both ways.