The Metaverse is coming. Or, another attempt at Bread and Circuses for the Masses.

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FIFA Hopes World Cup Fans Want To Buy Metaverse Merch - Slashdot

In the real world, the construction of the World Cup infrastructure in Qatar has been marred by extreme temperatures and migrant worker deaths. In the metaverse, however, a digital replica of Lusail Stadium in Doha has none of that baggage -- and the virtual property can be raffled off as a...
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Mr. Zuckerberg has said that the Metaverse is a 10 year project. That sort of thing does not sit well on Wall Street. He should take a page from the computer game industry. Developers have to meet certain milestones/deadlines to show investors progress is being made. With the Metaverse, it appears investors lost confidence since there was little to show for the amount of money put in.
 
It is bad enough that adults pay real money to live in a virtual world now the kids are doing
the same thing. I guess real life people skills are on the way out.
 
I hope this doesn't happen but based on recent history: "Massive hack affects thousands of Robux accounts. Parents pull their kids out of payment system."
 
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Real AI will need biology: Computers powered by human brain cells

The time has come to create a new kind of computer, say researchers from John Hopkins University together with Dr. Brett Kagan, chief scientist at Cortical Labs in Melbourne, who recently led development of the DishBrain project, in which human cells in a petri dish learnt to play Pong.
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It is dead, Jim.
Cya all in 10 years when it has another revival....
Thank whoever that this crap has died, now someone has to tell Linkedin about it...
 
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