Every time Mark Zuckerberg shares a screen shot of his version of the Metaverse, the trolls come out to play. But even when the cool kids, or the Bored Apes share what they’re working on, it’s not that fundamentally different from Zuck’s version. It always feels similar to what we’ve been seeing forced on us as “the future” for decades. Call it Second Life. Call it Roblox. Call it cartoon avatars walking around a 3D recreation of our physical world on magic mushrooms. How much better can this...

Every time Mark Zuckerberg shares a screen shot of his version of the Metaverse, the trolls come out to play. But even when the cool kids, or the Bored Apes share what they’re working on, it’s not that fundamentally different from Zuck’s version. It always feels similar to what we’ve been seeing forced on us as “the future” for decades. Call it Second Life. Call it Roblox. Call it cartoon avatars walking around a 3D recreation of our physical world on magic mushrooms. How much better can this...