Facebook’s pivot was decidedly weird. Mark Zuckerberg addressed the world and said, “Look, I know I’ve spent the past decade insisting that the future would consist solely of you arguing with your racist uncle using a primitive text interface of my own devising. But I have had a revelation. It turns out that the future really will involve me converting you and everyone you love into a legless, sexless, low-polygon, heavily surveilled cartoon character in a virtual world called the Metaverse, which we ripped off from a twenty-five-year-old dystopian, satirical cyberpunk novel.”
