{"id":4155,"date":"2021-12-24T11:38:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T10:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/24\/its-christmas-in-the-metaverse-welcome-to-your-zuckerbergian-nightmare\/"},"modified":"2021-12-24T11:38:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T10:38:02","slug":"its-christmas-in-the-metaverse-welcome-to-your-zuckerbergian-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/24\/its-christmas-in-the-metaverse-welcome-to-your-zuckerbergian-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Christmas in the Metaverse: welcome to your Zuckerbergian nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holiday family gatherings in Meta\u2019s virtual world would probably include robot avatars and a digitized appearance by Mariah Carey<\/p>\n<p>If you witnessed Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s unveiling of the \u201cMetaverse\u201d this year, you\u2019ll be familiar with his utopian vision: a future in which we abandon our woefully outdated reality in favor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/28\/facebook-name-change-rebrand-meta\">his virtual world<\/a>. After all, what could be better than surrendering the very concept of observable truth to the man whose service has convinced your aunt that elites want to drink the blood of children? <\/p>\n<p>The Zuckerbergian digital universe isn\u2019t quite ready yet, but with Christmas around the corner, we took an educated guess at what the holidays might look like under the incoming regime.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/dec\/24\/mark-zuckerberg-meta-virtual-reality\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3007b0ff751b70ca3faecaa4b74742aad374cd69\/0_0_1500_900\/master\/1500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=143b106ee7a1e37640c9b4f717b7e132\" title=\"It\u2019s Christmas in the Metaverse: welcome to your Zuckerbergian nightmare\" \/>Holiday family gatherings in Meta\u2019s virtual world would probably include robot avatars and a digitized appearance by Mariah Carey<br \/>\nIf you witnessed Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s unveiling of the \u201cMetaverse\u201d this year, you\u2019ll be familiar with his utopian vision: a future in which we abandon our woefully outdated reality in favor of his virtual world. After all, what could be better than surrendering the very concept of observable truth to the man whose service has convinced your aunt that elites want to drink the blood of children?<br \/>\nThe Zuckerbergian digital universe isn\u2019t quite ready yet, but with Christmas around the corner, we took an educated guess at what the holidays might look like under the incoming regime. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holiday family gatherings in Meta\u2019s virtual world would probably include robot avatars and a digitized appearance by Mariah Carey If you witnessed Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s unveiling of the \u201cMetaverse\u201d this year, you\u2019ll be familiar with his utopian vision: a future in which we abandon our woefully outdated reality in favor of his virtual world. After all, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/24\/its-christmas-in-the-metaverse-welcome-to-your-zuckerbergian-nightmare\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It\u2019s Christmas in the Metaverse: welcome to your Zuckerbergian nightmare<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}