Angelus News | April 8, 2022 | Vol. 7 No. 7
On the cover: The notion of the “metaverse,” touted by tech executives like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, is no longer a far-off idea. In fact, we may be gradually entering it through our growing reliance on gadgets and the internet to get through daily life. On Page 12, Elise Ureneck looks into where the metaverse wants to take us and whether people of faith should resist or try to shape a world that isn’t totally “real.”
On the cover: The notion of the “metaverse,” touted by tech executives like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, is no longer a far-off idea. In fact, we may be gradually entering it through our growing reliance on gadgets and the internet to get through daily life. On Page 12, Elise Ureneck looks into where the metaverse wants to take us and whether people of faith should resist or try to shape a world that isn’t totally “real.”
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Next stop:<br />
the metaverse<br />
metaverse<br />
the<br />
A new online<br />
world promises<br />
to improve every<br />
part of our lives.<br />
But will any good<br />
come from it?<br />
BY ELISE ITALIANO URENECK<br />
STEVE JOHNSON/UNSPLASH<br />
When Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced his<br />
company’s name change to “Meta” late last year,<br />
skeptics saw an attempt to deflect attention from<br />
emerging reports claiming the company was well aware of<br />
reports detailing how social media was harming democratic<br />
institutions and having bad effects on mental health,<br />
particularly for young women.<br />
Zuckerberg responded to the controversy by claiming that<br />
the “metaverse” is the next chapter of the internet, and his<br />
company was refocusing its mission to build it and shape<br />
its contours.<br />
The metaverse, according to Zuckerberg, is a “creative<br />
economy” that users will build together, where users can<br />
“express ourselves and experience the world with ever<br />
greater richness.”<br />
12 • ANGELUS • <strong>April</strong> 8, <strong>2022</strong>
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