The Metaverse Pretends That Life Is A Game. That’s The Whole Problem.
14 min readJun 8, 2022
Do you remember gamification? I do.
As does, I imagine, anyone else who was avidly following the rise of silicon valley social tech companies like Facebook from about, say, 2010 to 2016, the last moment when said companies were still generally portrayed in the broader discourse as innovative and genuinely helpful.
