Is Mark Zuckerberg Really Trying to Build a Metaverse?

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I think about this a lot with the Mars colonization idea I'm pretty sure that Elon Musk genuinely wants to colonize Mars so that he can extend belated consciousness throughout the universe. Mark Zuckerberg who is like You know seems like an incredibly kind of awkward dude and meanwhile Keeps making himself the face of this project that like people just are not buying at all Yeah, the feeling it stands out to me is Like I'm sure that Zuckerberg would like to be able to play in the metaverse But Zuckerberg also wants to like go on his hydrofoil If we look for if we imagine a future like 40 years from now, I can buy that there's a version of the climate future In which

Paris Marx is joined by Dave Karpf to discuss Meta’s misguided attempt to turn Facebook into a metaverse company, how Wired Magazine has evolved, and why the tech billionaires are destroying the world.

Dave Karpf is an Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University. He’s also the author of The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy and Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy. Follow Dave on Twitter at @davekarpf.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

Dave wrote about the history of WIRED Magazine’s future predictions and why VR never dies.
People Make Games made a video looking at what’s going on in VRChat.
Meta’s legs demo wasn’t real.
Douglas Rushkoff’s new book Survival of the Richest looks at how the rich are trying to protect themselves from the crises they’re making worse.
Science fiction books mentioned: Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, and William Gibson’s The Peripheral.