'Tis the season of ghosts and goblins, and in that vein I just watched an 11-minute horror movie. It was Mark Zuckerberg's promotional video on YouTube in which he introduces his new brand name Meta and his plans for a "metaverse." Meta sounds less like the heroically epic undertaking Zuckerberg envisions that will advance the world and humanity, and more like the latest COVID variant — and this may be the deadliest yet.
Is the name, not to mention the concept, a tad pretentious and self-important? Umm ... Yes. Unless I'm missing something and it's an acronym, i.e., "Millionaires for the Ethical Treatment of Animals." I could get behind that! (I never "meta" dog I didn't like.) Or is it Meta because social media has meta-stasized as a cancer on society? I fear it's the latter.
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