Future Tense

The Metaverse – turning life into one big online experience

09.19.2021 - By ABC listenPlay

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Download on the App StoreGet it on Google Play

Facebook’s CEO has spoken about changing the social media platform into a “metaverse” company and he’s pledged billions to the cause. The metaverse is a term Silicon Valley uses for the next stage of the internet: a world in which all activities are conducted in an immersive Virtual Reality environment. But would Zoom-weary humans want to live in such a world? And is it really just a cover for surveillance capitalism?

More episodes from Future Tense