Large-scale technologies do not behave in the same way as smaller-scale technologies. I think about that a lot in regards to the evolution of the Internet.

I think about that with the metaverse.

The idea of ​​a new immersive interactive platform for global communication, which Meta (aka Facebook) revived in a more visible way, already seems to be in trouble.

Waves of tech layoffs, including thousands at Meta, create a sense that the dream may already be over. This happened before with the Internet: the first dot-com bubble, for example. Some ideas died, others survived, and then came new ones that nobody predicted.

But, if the concepts infusing the metaverse really take off, I don’t think subsequent evolutions will be easy to predict…