What is The Metaverse: A Virtual Future to Embrace or Fear?
The world is evolving at breakneck speed, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a number of existing trends, which are only likely to be consolidated by the emerging political consensus that the climate crisis can no longer be ignored. While the direct effects of and responses to these phenomena are various and multi-faceted, the likely direction of travel seems to be toward increasing physical social isolation. With people spending less time together in face-to-fa