The most obvious stupid scam ever conceived and they actually managed to hook a bunch of actual corporations
Square Enix, Nickelodeon, Coke, KFC, and more fell for this shit while regular people were laughing about how obvious a con it was.
Really puts into question the capitalist myth of the genius entrepreneur and the idea that these corporate types are rich because they are smart or deserving in some way.
Google Glass was INEVITABLE.
VR company meetings were INEVITABLE.
The Metaverse™ was INEVITABLE.
NFTs were INEVITABLE.
Venture capital is driven by whatever brainworms have wriggled into credulous techbros that particular season.
i just wish that new technology that came out was cool and good and made our lives better. When I was a kid all the phones went from landlines with boingy cords to wireless! The internet went from annoying dial-up noises that turned off the phone to so fast you could watch a movie faster than you could download a song just 5 years prior. Cars started coming with the unlocking button fob! THE BUTTON YOU PRESS TO UNLOCK YOUR CAR! it was so cool! Now all the technology sucks man. When’s the last time some little cool gizmo came out that made our lives better?
recuperation turns radical new things into status quo super-glue as fast as possible