Why We Should Fear Zuck s Metaverse

Earth, we have a problem. Then & Now is FAN-FUNDED! Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: http://patreon.com/user?u=3517018 Or send me a one-off tip of any amount and help me make more videos: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JJ76W4CZ2A8J2 Buy on Amazon through this link to support the channel: https://amzn.to/2ykJe6L Follow me on: Facebook: http://fb.me/thethenandnow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethenandnow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lewlewwaller Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/then-now-philosophy-history-politics/id1499254204 https://open.spotify.com/show/1Khac2ih0UYUtuIJEWL47z Description: What does meta really mean? What can we make of Facebook s change to Meta ? Jean-Francois Lyotard wrote about the decline of metanarratives in 1979 s The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge . Can we learn anything about Zuckerberg s aspirations from this classic postmodern text? Lyotard was prescient. He noticed in the 70s that quote ‘the miniaturization and commercialization of machines is already changing the way in which learning is acquired, classified, made available, and exploited.’ He also that ‘Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.’ Sources: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/25/business/ethiopia-violence-facebook-papers-cmd-intl/index.html https://www.vox.com/recode/22799665/facebook-metaverse-meta-zuckerberg-oculus-vr-ar https://theconversation.com/we-know-better-than-to-allow-facebook-to-control-the-metaverse-171467 https://tech.fb.com/connect-2021-our-vision-for-the-metaverse/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/25/what-are-the-facebook-papers/ https://apnews.com/article/the-facebook-papers-whistleblower-misinfo-trafficking-64f11ccae637cdfb7a89e049c5095dca https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/22/business/january-6-insurrection-facebook-papers/index.html Hans Bertens, The Idea of the Postmodern Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition Ethan Zuckerman, The Case for Digital Public Infrastructure, https://knightcolumbia.org/content/the-case-for-digital-public-infrastructure #metaverse #zuckerberg #facebook CREDITS Lyotard Photo: Bracha L. Ettinger, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5, via Wikimedia Commons