Yesterday, I wrote on how Facebook’s — er, “Meta’s” — going all-in on the “metaverse” — which I described as “an attempt to blur the lines between the real and the digital, allowing people to exist in entirely virtual spaces and enabling physical spaces to be overlaid with virtual attributes” — has failed (for now). Short version: It turns out people like real life, enough to buck the seemingly inevitable trend of the digitization of experience.
You can find more excellent analysis of the limitations and drawbacks of the metaverse in the Fall 2022 issue of Religion & Liberty, the excellent publication of the Acton Institute. I especially recommend Acton Institute librarian and research associate Dan Hugger’s essay “The Metaverse Does Not Exist.” Read it before it comes truer as a description of reality than as a philosophical statement.