Lords of the Metaverse

You have to hand it to Mark Zuckerberg. When the founder of Facebook announced in October that he was changing the name of the social-media network’s parent company to Meta Platforms in order to help create an alternative digital reality known as the metaverse, he was mercilessly mocked…And yet his timing was impeccable. Since October searches on Google for “metaverse” have soared. Wall Street is fanning the hype…It says markets with potential annual revenue of at least $2 trillion could be disrupted by the metaverse.

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