Metaverse, die already

In the last 5 minutes, while browsing my social media accounts, several times I came across “metaverse”. Bill Gates said something about meetings happening in the metaverse already in the next couple of years. Then this in my Facebook feed:

Then there is Facebook itself — now part of Meta. The biggest player in the metaverse space it seems, the creator of it!

I know, I know I’m not in the league of Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates. I’m not even in any of the orbits of their planet (that are surely part of the metaverse). I’m in the gutter.

Still, am I the only one thinking this is all fucking bull shit?

I’m usually not the one using the “starving children in Africa” argument, or “we need more human connections, not be glued to our devices”. I accept that there are a lot of things happening in the world concurrently — a lot of people are struggling, some are spending their billions to explore the possibility of colonizing Mars; and that our gadgets and devices are an integral part of everyday modern life, entertainment, and work. I don’t consider myself old-school (or old for that matter), or grumpy; I don’t compare generations. I don’t criticize new trends that have fundamentally changed the ways we live. In fact, many are awesome. That I can have, any time I want, a free video call with my mom in Russia is incredible. That the…