Like aside from the obvious corporate hell-thing association it's got it just sounds lame for describing virtual worlds and such
What happened to naming a collection of virtual worlds "Cyberspace"
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Like aside from the obvious corporate hell-thing association it's got it just sounds lame for describing virtual worlds and such
What happened to naming a collection of virtual worlds "Cyberspace"
It's also completely demolishing the origin of the phrase. It's from the novel snowcrash, which is fucking wild. The metaverse in snow crash was meant to be a series of worlds connected by easily accessible ports. It was the concept for the internet and hyperlinks, but from the pov of a cyberpunk absurdist world written in 1992. The use of the term is terrible for what it becomes, and snow crash is kinda left in the dust as a result.
i for one am thankful they are calling it the metaverse because cyberspace sounds rad as hell and i'm glad corporations and techbros aren't ruining it