Since the term first became well known to tech-heads and futurists from its inclusion in Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash, the “metaverse” has been held as a vision of a future existence for humankind – a virtual existence.
With our feet still stuck in the material world, the metaverse would allow a seemingly endless range of experiences and opportunities for human engagement.
Well, human-to-avatar engagement, at the very least. Although Snow Crash offers a satirical view of one of sci-fi’s most prevalent tropes, the dystopian world and its fantastic (if unreal) counterpart, many found the concept of a metaverse something to aspire to.
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