The percentage of the adult population that stumbles down the road while surfing a Meta product or wakes up and goes to bed with Facebook as the first and last thing they see is truly impressive, and governments are rightfully terrified of the impact of such power in the hands of a company which professes to ‘move fast and break things’.Īs Facebook becomes Meta it is good to remember this is a company worth about $1tn, or $3,000 per American, or the US fiscal debt for a bad year. Meta (Facebook) keeps getting hauled into hearings all over the world, for the simple reason that it owns the attention and life of a huge slice of humanity. This may well be a diversionary manoeuvre in the same way as the Google monopolies renaming to Alphabet seemed to speak to the idea of diluting an ever-building wave of negativity towards the brand by giving the company a new name.

Spielberg’s film 'Ready Player One' laid out the dream/nightmare of fully immersive online games and now Facebook, with its VR headset in tow, have bought the whole bill of goods. The metaverse is little more than a playroom or Disneyland on your computer, and if you want to feel you are really there you can strap a VR headset like the Oculus Rift to your face. Once called god games, they have been rebranded as the metaverse.

What could be more exciting than simulating whole worlds? Simulations of the world go back a long way and even the young engineer's favourite Meccano set or a box of Lego speak to the desire to recreate and simulate real-world objects. The idea is that in due course there will be infinite simulations of us in the universe yet only one real universe, and as such the chances of us being part of one of those countless simulations rather than existing in the real thing is extremely high. It is quite a popular idea that we are all just living in a simulation.

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