The metaverse will become a technological phenomenon, if the enthusiasm of technology innovators like Mark Zuckerberg, who recently rebranded Facebook as Meta, is embraced by business leaders and consumers. Zuckerberg calls the metaverse “a set of virtual spaces where you can create and explore with others who aren’t in the same physical space as you,” and believes the potential of this new virtual landscape will only be realized once we get started. spend more time in the metaverse than in the real world. But what does the prospect of a virtual landscape in which we spend all our time mean for our identities?

Although we are many years away from seeing the metaverse…