RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted

I was a Second Life enthusiast and I still believe something metaverse-ish might prove powerful. But Zuckerberg’s vision was dead wrong.

The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people, don’t know how or why people use their products, and very often have no idea what they’re doing.

Cypress Gardens, Fl, 1954

Wally Wood’s April 1959 cover to Galaxy magazine. Note the space suit helmet with apparatus for smoking cigarettes.

The Charlotte Observer, North Carolina, February 11, 1932

This Ancient Paw Print on a Pottery Fragment in Jerusalem Is the Oldest Known Evidence of a Cat Kneading. The deep penetrations suggest that the feline was pressing its claws into the clay, a behavior sometimes known as “making biscuits”