Editor’s Note: The following editorial was written by a student in Jessica Cawley’s UConn senior English class at Wheeler High School. Class members are Lucy Smith, Kiara Korten, Cydney Sottile, Benjamin Nave, Jason Mazzella, Payton Osborn, Madeline O’Gara, Nora Broderick, Lexi Taylor, and Cat Coombe.

In recent years, there has been a lot of talk about the metaverse. Facebook Inc. officially changed its company name to Meta Platforms in October. Ubisoft is launching Ubisoft Quartz, a platform where NFTs and games meet. Nintendo is showing interest in creating its own metaverse and NFTs. With everything…