That glorious future of “The Metaverse,” promised to us by Silicon Valley’s tech and financial geniuses, has been pronounced DOA.

Our future was pronounced dead last week.

I mean that glorious future of “The Metaverse,” promised to us by Silicon Valley’s tech and financial geniuses. Just a decade ago, they were promising us that by now we’d all be playing, working and relating as digital avatars of ourselves, living out our lives in a phantasmagoric new world of virtual reality.

They boldly proclaimed that the next Big Thing in tech, replacing smartphones and all other personal devices, would be a “Metaverse,” digitally connecting everyone everywhere. They exclaimed that by purchasing goofy-looking, reality-augmenting headsets, interactions could be done without any in-person human contact. And who better to sell this future than the super-goofy gabillionaire, Mark Zuckerberg?

The CEO of Facebook, he was so bedazzled by the digital hokum of the metaverse that he even renamed his corporation “Meta.”........

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