Silicon Valley is promising a digital world within our world. But logging in to the metaverse won't solve our issues.
If our technological overlords get it right, the future will be beautiful. Picture a young man living in a home as lovely as any he can imagine; the furnishings are modern and his windows overlook scenes of tropical waterfalls and the ocean perpetually at sunset. Every item he could wish to collect lines the walls of this space, and he can indulge every passion.
Even if Meta succeeds with its metaverse—and there is considerable skepticism that it will—the concept is both promising and unsettling. Remember that technology companies are essentially corporate futurists: to survive, they try to navigate the world to come. And the world they are betting on is, in fact, deeply dystopian.
But in a society where social mobility is impossible for all but the most intelligent, it can also create a permanent underclass. In that scenario, the ruling elite must at least find a way for said underclass to stay happy. And here we see the real potential of the metaverse.
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