Difficult for me to see what distinguishes Twitter from the metaverse. People are inside Twitter, to use Zuckerberg’s term
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They have an avatar, they play a role. Twitter is permanent and continuous. You return to where you left off.
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That seems a rather superficial and technical difference. And by the way Zuck for one has said you will be able to access the metaverse from your phone or laptop, not necessarily a VR-set. Seems the concept is broader than 3D simulation
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It isn't... I recommend trying it out. Sure it will have aspects accessible from other modalities, but strong medium-is-the-message effects are at play here. I wouldn't reductively map it to textual immersion. It's like saying Twitter is basically like a paper book library.
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No, not that. It’s that Twitter is a platform you inhabit. A book is not something you can jump inside and play a role. That defines the metaverse, not the technical modality
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I've heard people make the same argument about the feeling of being in a library, talking to great minds through the ages, and like-minded people in the cafe 😂
In general, I go strongly by McLuhan's "rearview mirror" argument that people tend to see the new in terms of the old
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It is tempting but dangerous to dismiss the differences as minor and inconsequential and the similarities as determinative and sufficient for sound analysis. IME in tech, it's the apparently minor "technical" differences that cause big divergence

