Meta-verse
 

How will this affect Amazon Prime?

Is this the next generation of the Internet? Thoughts

You are going to have to wear a TV on your nose :)

It won't.

Zero interest!

If possible, that’s more interest than I have. However, I don’t think it’s a good thing for the health of future generations. People need to spend less time tethered to electronic devices and more time outdoors getting healthy exercise.

I don’t even know what metaverse is. I’ve heard the term, of course. Can anyone explain this to me? I can’t be the only person who doesn’t know.

It is a place where you can spend real money on completely nonexistent items that apparently can only be seen on a computer screen, NOT for me.

within our lifetimes, probably zero influence. But, it is the next step forward in our expanding technology dominated future. It's pretty exciting, right now being driven by cryptos and NFTs.

Probably more collection of our habits, data, purchases etc.

simply put, I have a great piece of land with a water view i can sell you......

So, is that like watching stuff on Prime Video? Still fuzzy on the concept.

It just occurred to me I should probably Google it.

It seems like a pyramid scheme to me in that its not tied to anything tangible. It's shades of the dot.com bust in the '90s.

Like Bitcoin

You can't deny the viability of this stuff when you see all of the folks (young and old) already addicted to their smart phones. Think about it - If you spend a big majority of your free time looking at a small one dimensional color screen, why wouldn't you be excited about a system that immerses you in an "alternate universe" using artificial intelligence, great visuals, perfect sounds, etc. I think the human race is doomed unless someone figures out who is going to be the workers in the future. And believe me, that someone can't be Mark Zuckerberg!

It reminds me of an episode from Star Trek: The Next Generation where the crew was given these headsets that has a laser thing that pointed at their eyes. Pretty soon, everyone became addicted to it on the Starship Enterprise, as it immersed them in a fantasy world and gave them feelings of euphoria and other pleasurable sensations. It was a sinister plot by an alien race to subjugate those who might interfere with their nefarious plans. Very prescient episode, don't you think?.