"It feels incumbent upon me to write something about last week’s big news in which the company formerly known as Facebook decided to shut down its Metaverse project on which it has, according to various reports, spent eighty billion dollars,' says Neal Stephenson
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/my-prodigal-brainchild
Bruce Sterling @bruces
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