Someone was trying to draw attention to a number of NFTs, non-fungible tokens that are supposed to certify authenticity and ownership and are used to facilitate real estate transactions. But more often they are part of some marketing scheme. In this case, a public relations representative said that the company involved was moving from the pilot project to the production phase, which seems to undermine the concept of an NFT as scarce and particularly valuable.

Which goes to show why many are wary of hype concepts like the metaverse, which is supposed to be a titanic virtual universe where people from anywhere can interact. Maybe. What Wired put it out in April“Listening to tech CEOs like [Meta’s] Mark Zuckerberg or [Microsoft’s] Satya Nadella talks about it, the metaverse is the future of the Internet. EITHER…