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The word of the year, according to Oxford’s annual (and now semi-democratically awarded) designation, is… “goblin mode.” Really?
What happened to “metaverse”, the distant runner-up of “goblin mode” with less than a tenth of the votes? Back in August, I could have sworn we’d never hear the end of the metaverse, the buzzword that encapsulates the potential of a deeply embodied Internet with unprecedented connectivity and interoperability; essentially, virtual reality. We’ve come a long way since snow shock, and now the metaverse is supposedly the very near-term future of the Internet. The apparent commercial potential of the metaverse was so powerful that it forced Mark Zuckerberg to change the name of Facebook (parent company), if not also Facebook (website), to…
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