" Nobody asked for this energy from the general public" was what Mark Zuckerberg was told when he first declared his metaverse vision. Virtual reality isn't that mainstream and the tech is far from what it needs to be in order to offer users a truly immersive experience.
The legless public is still asking the same questions a year after a few high profile collaborations, another Meta Connect conference, and fifteen billion dollars. The tech isn't there yet and the public isn't interested in participating. We have a lot of technology for work. Why do we need a new future of work if we don't already have one?
To understand the Facebook Overlord's metaverse push, we need to stop asking ourselves what we want. The metaverse isn't about us, it's about Zuck, who in her eyes isn't just aiming to solve hard compression or legless avatar or other hardware and software hurdles. He wants to solve the problem of his own death by building heaven.
"To understand the Metaverse, you have to understand that rich techno nerds genuinely believe they will be able to upload their consciousness before they die," said Gorcenski.
The Metaverse isn't being built to make remote work better. They need to believe they can build heaven in order to build it. Who built the heavens? The Almighty.
It's not that crazy. Technology and those who build it have always been connected to the obsession of the rich and famous with eternal life. The billionaire is said to have considered asking young people for blood donations. Jeff Bezos is funding immortality technology.
Maybe he too wants his consciousness to exist forever in a digital world of his own design, as he has spent most of his life turning humans into dataset.
His colleagues' dreams of pushing their mortal little bodies a few years further down the real-life line would outdo his quest to become a digital deity. The dark theory that better rewards could be given to those who contributed more data and effort to keep heaven running is addressed in her argument.
You have to do everything in your power to make Digital Heaven happen. That's not the craziest idea since Facebook pioneered data mining.
It could be argued that bits and pieces of this theoretical digital future are already playing out among the mass. The contemporary beauty industry, which has become a version of augmented reality unto itself, is as obsessed with youth as they are. A photo is a thing of the past. Is it a bad idea to have a perfect digital existence in the metaverse?
If you want to take it a step further, consider " grief tech" startups, which have already offered real people the chance to turn themselves into an interactive tool after death. A version of immortality is the goal of these companies, even though they aren't able to upload users' actual consciousness. These apps will help occupy the platform if Zuck can build it. Other artificial intelligence companies are trying to bring people back from the dead.
Of course, this is all a bit of Freudian thinking, and we're pretty sure that he isn't going to stand up in Meta meetings and proclaim himself to be their eternal lord. It was almost done. The creation of a digital afterlife may have always been inevitable because of the desire to live forever.
The cruelest thing that can happen to Zuckerberg is that he dies like everyone else.
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