From the metaverse, by Miqui Otero

I think life is demanding enough for me live two simultaneously (something that they have found in their moonlighting meats and donjuanes). And, in fact, the reality is hard enough to want to enlarge it. But, thanks to augmented reality, we will not live a digital life through a screen, but we will get into it.

In the middle of a embarrassing credibility crisisWith leaks confirming how its algorithms fuel neo-fascist fires and flat-earthen niches, Facebook has changed its name. In the same way that Mr. Proper was Mr. Clean, and Prince became The Symbol, Facebook is now Meta. And what is or will be Meta? A virtual and parallel world, where thanks to glasses and a wallet we can live another life, spend twice, consume twice. The point is that This world is controlled by a company that has just been renamed, in a maneuver to make up his image similar to that of the PP when he announced that he would move from his headquarters in Genoa.

If this was my first column in the metaverso, where I could unleash other types of transhuman columnist, maybe I could give the turra with which now Lolita could not be published (while it is being republished) or I could shoot a joke about gangosos to affirm that in real life I would be censored. Moreover, in my columns I would give a lapidary opinion on everything (from the supply crisis to Eurovision), I would dispatch everything by the grace of the adversaries (“I’m not an expert, but & rdquor ;,“ I’m not a racist, but & rdquor;) and I would end each reasoning with the phrase: “We are in a good deal & rdquor ;. But, I suppose, I would have to analyze that World 2.

It could be that people in the metaverse created by Zuckerberg (someone who scares me to this day than Ronald McDonald in a dark alley) took for leave social networks forever. There are people who pay a fortune for coworkings where there is no internet, for example. So let’s imagine a parallel virtual world where the human being would stay to walk (after all, in video games like Fortnite now there are also to watch movies), knitting and sewing, playing Who’s Who, reading Paulo Coelho in a park at five in the afternoon (chirping birds, optional filter) and crack from the tyranny of social media and how they almost finished us.

The antonym scenario, of course, is more feasible. A parallel world where be able to spend even more, something like a vital gambling disorder. There we would be a 3D replica of our characters on social networks: people looking at their feet on the beach for days and days without ingesting liquid or solid, ending any friendly chat with “Zasca! emoji on the outside (and of pity on the inside) at any bad joke, saying first of all “this is unbearable & rdquor ;, releasing“ bitch & rdquor; or “subnormal & rdquor; Before the first comment not shared on the bus, meeting people exactly like you every day to feel unique.

A third could be given. In the same way that lucid dreaming They are used to overcome addictions to alcohol or emotional breakdowns, some people could mitigate their blows by drinking or by finding themselves in this other seemingly inane reality.

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For now we will pray that many wimp and histrions get trapped in that parallel world. Also for the millionaires who will travel to outer space to orbit there forever, as in a bad version of Bowie. Some of us already did that of living two lives thanks to glasses: the most nerdy readers take refuge in spare lives since childhood. So we will dedicate ourselves, for the moment, to inhabit parallel worlds thanks to that old and contrasted mechanism. It is not a solution, but a refuge and comfort.

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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