Geert Lovink, "Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism" (Pluto Press, 2019)
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The Future of the Metaverse Is Important to Keep in Mind
I wonder if it's going to come up in a meta's marketing copy. I doubt because for them it is in the end about creating just another 3D version of the online profile which always needs. That's the cheap way. But there is still the promise of the avatar that kind of supersedes this and also what I call the online crowd or the tribe or even the online mob for that matter. The Metaverse can also lead to very new forms of crowd and mob behaviour that Mark Zuckerberg for sure has not yet dissipated. So we've already covered our responsibility for what we already know about legacy technologies being still spread around the particular global self, but critic Dean Kessick
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