Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the Second Life boom?
If you strap enough rockets to a pig, it will fly.<p>If you throw enough cash at a problem, it will be &quot;solved&quot;.<p>I remember google wave. Remember that? The noise it made when it came out. What a mess. And then we got slack and discord and we must admit it somewhat solves the same ideas.<p>So I don&#x27;t know. We might very well be in VR goggles in 10 years surrounded by 25 virtual screens, 5 notification systems and parallel windows updates while bidding on a new VR background, on a NFT trading platform using some shitty cryptocurrency we&#x27;ve never heard of 2 weeks prior.<p>Or we could just be on a terminal in vim doing the same shit as today.<p>I only hope we have choices. Because this new internet they&#x27;re trying to push is further away from RFCs and open protocols than we&#x27;ve ever been. And that&#x27;s very sad. Our parents gave us a free internet where everything is possible, and we&#x27;re doing our very best to destroy that idea to a world of wall gardens and consumerism where the very few will even know how it works.