The Only Good Technologist is an Anti-Technologist
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“Legs are coming soon!” read the widely-lampooned tweet from the @MetaHorizon corporate Twitter account. Legs, they announced, were coming soon. Hooray?
I read this tweet only because I saw people dunking on it. There was a degree of absurdity to this announcement, which marked the fact that legs would be added to the avatars available on the Meta virtual reality platform, Horizon. After all, we have legs. Legs are not coming soon, they’re already here; here since the day that sea slugs climbed out of the ocean and somehow became monkeys. Announcing the new addition of legs to the human physique was something of a reimagination of the laws of evolution.
I read this tweet at a time when I was listening to Meta (formerly Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg giving a three-hour podcast audience to Joe Rogan, the stand-up comedian/Fear Factor presenter/MMA enthusiast turned podcast magnate. For many in the digital media space, such an interview was essential listening; for other, normal people, it was like being confronted with the audiobook of Ulysses, read in Norwegian by someone with a mouthful of olives.
The metaverse — the virtual reality universe proposed by Zuckerberg and carried along by many others — is a controversial idea…
