Why people are mad at the metaverse

It's too hyped, too hard, and too much. What if it happens anyway?

Horizon Worlds (Meta)

Today, let’s look at the increasingly contentious debate over the mostly blank canvas that is the metaverse: whether it exists today, will ever exist, should ever exist, and why people seem so preemptively mad about some of the potential answers.

When Mark Zuckerberg first told me last July about his plan to turn Facebook into “a met…