Zuckerberg Metaverse Quotes

What Zuckerberg has in mind for Horizon is a dystopian advertising nightmare.

In his classic Only the Paranoid Survive, Intel founder Andy Grove describes the moment every leader dreads, when massive change occurs and a company must either transform or fall by the wayside. For Zuckerberg, this “strategic inflection point” came when TikTok overtook Facebook and Instagram in user engagement, forcing him to rename his company and leap into the metaverse.

Any bad news for Zuckerberg’s Metaverse is pretty good news for the Metaverse.

Most of what we call "the metaverse" has been around for quite a long time. "Metaverse" is just a label we put on different technologies that pre-date Zuckerberg's version of the story.

It is common today to hear techno-futurists and billionaire trans-humanists muse about the potential of technology to help mankind—or least the extremely wealthy—slip the surly bonds of aging and even death by “uploading” memories to a digital cloud and using AI to recreate consciousness. Billionaire investor and entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan, who sees “the vector of our civilization” in terms of a choice between “anarcho-primitivism or optimalism/transhumanism,” has talked about “life extension” technologies that could make possible what he calls “genomic reincarnation,” in which a person’s sequenced DNA could in theory be synthesized and printed out into a new body, “like a clone, but it is you in a different time.”23 And of course there are the billionaire enthusiasts like Elon Musk who see a future in which technology is fused with human biology in some kind of brain-machine interface, or Mark Zuckerberg, who dreams of replacing physical society with a virtual “Metaverse.