Welcome to the Metaverse?

Filed in archive Wired Home General on April 14, 2007

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Over at CNET News, they're talking about our universe, or rather our Metaverse our new digital home. In the always on world expected by 2016, CNET and the researchers they discuss in the article question whether or not our lives will evolve into a Second Life type phenomenon by 2016.

Though we may become more and more dependent on technology, and especially the Internet as time passes, the need for real human interaction will never be overtaken by living online, though I'm sure sometimes my wife thinks it already has for I spend some days reading and writing away, swept away in a virtual world of my own choosing. But I always get up, give her a hug and kiss, and crawl into bed with her. I just can't see myself "virtually" sleeping online with her, or with anyone.

Not in my Universe. Not now. Not in 2016. No way!