• mindbleach
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    11 months ago

    Everyone made up their own private definition of “metaverse” and assumes the rest of us are using it the same way. Most of those definitions are so stupidly shallow that it just means “video game.”

    People: Snow Crash was satire.

    The metaverse is literally a joke.

    The 1980s view of cyberspace was disembodied techno-warlocks soaring through floating numbers to avoid getting their brains melted by anti-intrusion software. Neal Stephenson turned that into a mall.