I’ll live and die a boomer about this shit. If this shit catches on before i’m thrust into the labor market from college, I’m gunning straight for a socially essential IRL job like waste management that will take one hell of a grift to move into the metaverse. Fuck web3, fuck digital “assets”, fuck intellectual property, fuck facebook, fuck the entire concept. I have principles surrounding tech and privacy, and unlike my views on the path to communism, I am extremely inflexible on them.
Only metaverse I’ll ever step foot in given the chance is the cool one :reeducation:
Metaverse is exactly the kind of thing the elderly will take to if the tech is made user friendly, just like Facebook. They’re largely unemployed and many have mobility issues, the exact perfect audience for any kind of entertainment.
It’s really not the elderly have a noted reluctance to adopt new technologies especially ones that require radical adjustments
That’s not really the case unless they’re too poor to afford it or too ill to try. It’s also likely to change as the “old people” of 2025 are gonna be Boomers, who have been using smartphones pretty much since they debuted.
