I couldn't agree more. Why in the hell would anyone want to go online and interact with avatars in make-believe land. For God's sake metaversers, go out into some natural setting and interact with something real.
Metaverse sounds like hell. But it will come. And there will be ads everywhere we go, even if we aren't logged into the metaverse. And it will be for our "convenience" as customers - when we walk by a store, don't we want to know they have an item we are interested in at a good price? Don't we want to see reviews of restaurants as we pass by to help us choose one? Really, it's for our own good! it will be noise everywhere, ads everywhere. I got a taste of this when I was on a trip; I had location "on" on my phone; as I did my morning walk, when I got near a group of businesses I started getting push messages urging me to come in and buy something (mainly fast food places). It was horrible. Oh such a brave new world... sigh.
If I recall correctly, Gibson described the :metaverse" as a mutually shared hallucination. Just what we need with the scammers and spanners taking over, yes?
There is no social value to a media that promotes videos of cats playing on the couch & conspiracy theories as entertainment. Social media as it has developed is only suitable for the feeble minded.
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I couldn't agree more. Why in the hell would anyone want to go online and interact with avatars in make-believe land. For God's sake metaversers, go out into some natural setting and interact with something real.
Metaverse sounds like hell. But it will come. And there will be ads everywhere we go, even if we aren't logged into the metaverse. And it will be for our "convenience" as customers - when we walk by a store, don't we want to know they have an item we are interested in at a good price? Don't we want to see reviews of restaurants as we pass by to help us choose one? Really, it's for our own good! it will be noise everywhere, ads everywhere. I got a taste of this when I was on a trip; I had location "on" on my phone; as I did my morning walk, when I got near a group of businesses I started getting push messages urging me to come in and buy something (mainly fast food places). It was horrible. Oh such a brave new world... sigh.
( I am from NE Ohio too, about a half-hour from downtown Cleveland.
If I recall correctly, Gibson described the :metaverse" as a mutually shared hallucination. Just what we need with the scammers and spanners taking over, yes?
Yup. I'm glad I'm older because I no longer recognize the meta and for that matter real world that everyone seems hellbent on building.
There is no social value to a media that promotes videos of cats playing on the couch & conspiracy theories as entertainment. Social media as it has developed is only suitable for the feeble minded.