Ode to Punk6529 in my most recent Substack essay, “Digital Rights are Human Rights”:
https://thedisillusionedmillennial.substack.com/p/digital-rights-are-human-rights
As 6529 tells the story, the metaverse is not so much a destination, but a journey that we are already on. It’s not a future dystopian Wall-e World, where we float around in chairs plugged into virtual reality headsets. There won’t be a date on the calendar that we can point to, to say, “This was the day the metaverse came to be.”
Instead the best way to think about the “metaverse” is that it encompasses the idea of technology becoming intertwined with our daily lives and inextricably linked to our decision making and our realities both in the digital and physical worlds. Increasingly we live in a world where peoples’ identities online and their identities IRL are equally valid parts of who they are, impacting their communities, their thoughts, and who they see themselves as.
The metaverse is social media. It is the digital tools that we carry around with us in our pockets at every moment of the day. It is our personal assistants who wake us up in the morning and remind us of our schedules throughout the day, or help us make the most mundane decisions of every day life. It is the communities of people that we connect with over shared interests (Reddit), restaurant recommendations (Yelp), or to vent (X)… In a short period of time, almost every aspect of real life has been digitized in some form, and the cumulative result is the present day version of the metaverse.
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