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Who doesn't like bringing everything terrible about the real world into the virtual one? Next thing you see they'll be having virtual commutes with virtual cars
by alwayslikethis 4y ago
Who doesn't like bringing everything terrible about the real world into the virtual one? Next thing you see they'll be having virtual commutes with virtual cars waiting 40 minutes just to go to your virtual office. But hey it's all metaverse, which means it's awesome and shiny, right?
- doctor_eval 4y agoThis makes me think of Futurama. There are still traffic jams, but now they’re in the sky!
- bigDinosaur 4y agoFuturama had every single problem of the 20th century, just translated forward a millennium.
- IntelMiner 4y agoI suspect that's what is known as a "joke"
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- XorNot 4y agoMy core mystery about the metaverse is just how boring everything they show about it is. "Bold new VR technology, what should we do with it? I know! Let's recreate brutalist grey concrete meeting rooms".
- reisse 4y agoI think it was somewhat common trope in sci-fi novels of 80s and 90s to justify virtual commute as a camouflage for loading time. Back when fastest Internet was 56k, it made sense.
- Balgair 4y agoPet Theory: It's because of Zuck's security detail/planning. I remember hearing that his house has 2 foot thick RPG-proof windows, that it's a fortress. He literally has a large degree of optical distortion looking through his windows every morning. Let alone all the crazy stuff, real or imagined, that his security team is telling him. So, he longs for even simple things like a boring meeting. Like when Michael Jackson closed down a supermarket just so he could go shopping like a normal person would. Same pathos here.