The metaverse.
Is it the latest tech buzzword that will come and go before you have a chance to understand it? Perhaps it’s a legless Mark Zuckerberg avatar floating in space? What about a new reality where humans shift from living in the physical world to a digital existence filled with immersive experiences?
Let’s omit the first two options, as I hope to demonstrate why the first is incorrect, and the second is, frankly, a terrifying image that no one should be subjected to.
You’re Googling it. I’ll wait.
The term metaverse was first coined in the early 1990s, in...