As he renames Facebook as Meta, Mark Zuckerberg is placing a bold bet on his vision of the future: a techno-utopia where people are connected and live in a virtual universe.
While this vision of the “metaverse” seems far off in the future, if achievable at all, Zuckerberg is convinced that his 3bn-strong social network, now arguably the world’s most controversial tech company, must move decisively to capture what he thinks will be the next evolution of the internet.
“By the end of this decade, or even by the middle of the decade, I would guess that we’re going to reach a point where our VR (virtual reality) devices will start to be clearly better for almost every use case than our laptops and computers are,” he said in an interview with the tech newsletter Stratechery.