the good news is that the metaverse and the tech industry's very
expensive obsession with trying to make it a reality will be a
schadenfreude generator the likes of which we've never seen before
The tech landscape is littered with failed attempts, but we have here two very technically successful companies, Epic and Facebook, both trying to re-imagine the internet as something different.
I'm not sure I'd write them off as a bunch of idiots quite yet.
A bunch of idiots with a lot of money maybe...
But look: Something is happening.
You can close your eyes and pretend it's not. Apps are going to go away and the web continue to be The Way people access information online, and sucky little progressive web applications that hardly anyone is using or making money off are going to become awesome and NFTs will die. I mean, heck, it's only a matter of time until all those people who invested in bitcoin lose it alllllllllll right?
You can sit there and laugh as how stupid they all are.
...maybe? If you want to.
That's probably not a wise thing to do though.
I think there are enough things going on, with enough competent folk doing them, and enough money behind them, that you're looking at the start of a change.
Who knows how it'll go, but I think it might surprise people who are sitting around laughing.
One thing that you can always bet on: Things change.
I'm not sure I'd write them off as a bunch of idiots quite yet.
A bunch of idiots with a lot of money maybe...
But look: Something is happening.
You can close your eyes and pretend it's not. Apps are going to go away and the web continue to be The Way people access information online, and sucky little progressive web applications that hardly anyone is using or making money off are going to become awesome and NFTs will die. I mean, heck, it's only a matter of time until all those people who invested in bitcoin lose it alllllllllll right?
You can sit there and laugh as how stupid they all are.
...maybe? If you want to.
That's probably not a wise thing to do though.
I think there are enough things going on, with enough competent folk doing them, and enough money behind them, that you're looking at the start of a change.
Who knows how it'll go, but I think it might surprise people who are sitting around laughing.
One thing that you can always bet on: Things change.