Link to: https://pxlnv.com/blog/metaverse-fever-dream/
Matthew Ball's 2020 metaverse forecast predicting trillions in value failed completely as Zuckerberg abandoned the project. Lesson for tech leaders: futurists reframe failed predictions instead of facing consequences, so speculative narratives shape billion-dollar investments regardless of real outcomes.
‘The Metaverse Fever Dream’
Nick Heer, at Pixel Envy, last week published a remarkable essay surveying — with copious receipts — the rise and fall of “metaverse” hype:
The obsession with the metaverse seems to have solidified in
Silicon Valley after Matthew Ball published an essay in
January 2020 in which he forecasted that, at the very least…
Link to: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/01/the-metaverse-fever-dream
1. Meta You probably know the gist. Predictions and dire warnings of a future lived in an immersive virtual world had been around…
Link to: https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/meta_says_fuck_that_metaverse_shit
The metaverse seems to thrive today not as a generic duplicate of our world, but rather a purposeful industry solution solving a…
Im Juni wird der Facebook- und Instagram-Konzern Meta seine Virtual-Reality-Plattform „Horizon Worlds“ abschalten. Ein letzter…
Meta engages in a high-stakes battle to unseat OpenAI
