the perfect version from the metaverse, to hear from tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg, blends social media, entertainment, and most exciting of all, meetings into one pristine virtual space. Predicted long ago in Neal Stephenson snow shock, is a place where the online world offers more experiences than the real world. But while Stephenson’s metaverse was part of an apocalyptic future, modern inventors have promised a digital utopia.

Unfortunately, the metaverse they’ve built has, thus far, lived up to those expectations about as well as a Craigslist apartment rented based on photos alone. Zuckerberg’s clunky and weird Horizon Worlds may have been more exciting when Meta informed users that legs for their avatars were “coming soon.” He…