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As someone who has regularly used virtual worlds for 20 years, the whole Metaverse thing was so hilarious.
Like, Facebook did not invent 3D online worlds, there are 3D online worlds older than Facebook.
"But wait, metaverse is not just 3D Virtual Worlds."
Which inecitably leads to "ok, so its just "The Internet".
As for the "Constantly being wrong." At somepoint, these people forgot that "having an idea" does not mean "Having a useful idea." You hear arguments about all these flash in the pan bull shit concepts like "People said the same thing about the internet or the iPhone." Yeah, and they said the same thing about a dozen other new idea that time forgot for every Internet or every iPhone idea that took off. Not every idea is "the next big thing". Statisrically, most ideas are "Not ever a thing."
Absolutely. They can't fathom anymore that, just because they want something, it doesn't mean that anyone else does. Or that they're not already getting it, even if they do.
Right, and I always think, "both of those solved actual problems that hadn't been solved before." Problems that I remember feeling, as a person who was conscious in the 90s: the need for quick, efficient, long-distance information transfer, and the problem that computers were stuck in your house when a lot of what you needed them for was while you were walking around.
Cryptocurrency didn't solve a problem that most people feel (and, I would argue, it didn't efficiently solve a problem that anyone actually has). The metaverse didn't solve any new problems at all (as you noted, the one thing it could do that anyone wanted was something that was already being done). And AI was already being used for anything it was good for long before Sam Altman convinced a dozen billionaires to give him multiple small-countries'-GDPs.
And since being a good businessman really means finding a solution and offering a product that solves it, they're just proving how bad they are at business.