It’s Friday night and I’m sitting on my couch watching my son play Minecraft with his cousin who lives 600 miles away. The two of them are screeching happily as they chase each other around a custom hideout map one of them made, and that’s when it hit me. The metaverse is not something we should wait five to ten years for. It’s already here, and the next generation is living in it.

So how do we juxtapose that with the latest figures from a Information (opens in a new tab) which shows that Meta, and other companies like it, are spending over $70 billion to build the metaverse. (opens in a new tab) over the next decade? As The Information article points out, this is twenty times the amount Apple spent building the original…