There's been a lot of talk lately about ChatGPT, but also about Mark Zuckerberg's struggles in fine-tuning Horizon Worlds, his new metaverse (or "metavers": the two spellings co-exist, but I'm choosing the former for more than clarity), a virtual universe in which he has invested billions of dollars: insufficient power of servers and networks, exorbitant cost of 3D headsets, devastating energy consumption, risk of speculative bubbles in cryptocurrencies and NFTs, legal regulation more than delicate, lack of interoperability between platforms (impossibility to transfer resources, purchases and messages from one metaverse to another).
My bet is that in the current context of the frantic quest for finally undeferred happiness, these start-up failures do not bode well for a future failure.
If it's all about being happy here and now, not postponing happiness, and if your everyday life seems...
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