Meditations on the Metaverse

Human Error by BBC

Dec 8, 202124:20Technology

On the 28th of October, 2021, Facebook announced The Future…aka, a corporate rebrand. By changing the name of their parent company to Meta, they set out a vision for a new internet. Here, you can meet your colleagues in...

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