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Facebook will, like CompuServe, AOL, Yahoo, etc fade away. They won't necessarily implode, but what was a hot trend will turn into a commodity nobody cares about. Also, their role in the US elections and Jan 6th will haunt them.
> For the past few months, everyone in tech has been talking about the metaverse non-stop. Um.
It was at this point in the article I became very skeptical of the author's thought process.
Gross. If anything, the more I have become ensconced in the internet the more I have begun to appreciate the physical world. My mental health must be wired to require actual trees, sunshine, birds, walks in the neighborhood.... Like a library, I want my internet to be there when I want it, but I don't want to live in it.
> My mental health must be wired to require actual trees, sunshine, birds, walks in the neighborhood It's not just your mental health, this is a well-researched fact of human/animal nature. What if the next great revolution in mobile/internet/etc. technology is for it to become less important in our lives? For it to recede into the background while we prioritize human relationships, the outdoors, being present? That…