I've Seen the Future, And It Is The Metaverse
And everyone thought Zuck was crazy
People said Zuck’s investment in the Metaverse was crazy. Quixotic.
Watch just the first 2 minutes of this podcast and you’ll see why they were wrong.
This is the future.
Now you’ve given it two minutes, do you agree?
We are already living far-flung lives, our loved ones scattered across the nations we live in, or maybe even the globe.
We try to stay connected, but even Facetime isn’t like this.
This is like being in the room with the other person. The subtleties add up. This is going to change human communication.
It might even humanize it again.
I know there are still tech hurdles to overcome before this can become an everyday experience, but it’s hard not to be excited about the possibilities.
What do you think?
It's exciting and worrisome. Exciting because I agree that it is going to change long distance communication in a way that could only be imagined in a SF novel a few short years ago. Worrisome because the human capacity to turn something good to evil ends knows no limits. Let me slip on my Skojec Avatar *TM and dial in my voice modulator and contact some of his friends/acquaintances and see what kind of trouble I can get into. Tight regulation might help but there will be end arounds to nullify any attempt at regulation.
Amazing achievement. But with Scott, my initial reflective reflex is in the direction of how can we trust this? Deepfakes abound already in the shallower media we're used to right now. Just considering pron and politics, possible applications come fast and furious to mind. Imagine a call center full of agents employing a faked avatar for whatever purpose. The handshake evolved from its roots as a polite pat-down on encountering another. Many of us remember the sound of the modem handshake of the pre-broadband era. What would a genuine metaverse handshake be?