A Defense of the Metaverse

How Virtual Worlds Can Offer Us Hope, Refuge, and Transformation

This last month or so, we have seen an incredible surge of interest, discussion and debate about the metaverse — what it is, what it will be, and whether it will do any good or not. That last question has seen an army of cynics slamming the very idea of a metaverse, decrying it as a sign of our society’s slide into dystopia. Let us recall that this…