{"id":2947,"date":"2023-03-31T01:45:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/the-metaverse-is-stupid-i-think\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T01:45:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:45:44","slug":"the-metaverse-is-stupid-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/the-metaverse-is-stupid-i-think\/","title":{"rendered":"The Metaverse Is Stupid, I Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few Tweets aside, I haven&#8217;t said much about the metaverse. This is entirely because I think the metaverse as currently advertised is incredibly stupid. Some see a sort of merger of the corporeal and virtual worlds,&nbsp;somehow different from Second Life. I see it as, at best, a gimmick and, at worst&nbsp;an ad-supported hellscape&nbsp;we are forced into by people who think it&#8217;s cool.&nbsp; It&#8217;s very hard to see the metaverse as proposed by Mark Zuckerberg as anything other than a new graphical interface for the same stuff we already do digitally. We have video calls, video games, chat programs, online banking, email, and other online tools that replace physical counterparts. I no longer need to go to an ATM to deposit a check. I don&#8217;t want to go to a virtual ATM in the metaverse to deposit a digital check. Sure, it&#8217;s possible the metaverse could have a utility I don&#8217;t yet understand. It took a&nbsp;global pandemic for me to consider QR codes useful&nbsp;for general consumers. But the best applications I can think of are essentially digital screens, and a VR whiteboard in a VR room isn&#8217;t so different from a digital display.&nbsp; This article by\u00a0Mason Pelt\u00a0of\u00a0Push ROI. First published in\u00a0MasonPelt.com on March 26, 2022. Photo by GuerrillaBuzz Blockchain PR Agency on Unsplash The post The Metaverse Is Stupid, I Think appeared first on Mason Pelt.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masonpelt.com\/the-metaverse-is-stupid-i-think\/\">The Metaverse Is Stupid, I Think<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few Tweets aside, I haven&#8217;t said much about the metaverse. This is entirely because I think the metaverse as currently advertised is incredibly stupid. Some see a sort of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[300,80,466,12,467,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}