Meta CTO compares confusion around metaverse to defining the internet

  • 📰 BusinessInsider
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 53 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 25%
  • Publisher: 51%

Finance Finance Headlines News

Meta's CTO was asked whether the term 'metaverse' did more harm than good. He chuckled and compared it to the early confusion over the word 'internet.'

, to his coffee preferences – he apparently doesn't drink coffee – and to a rather loaded question on semantics:"Did the term Metaverse do more harm than good?"

Bosworth initially chuckled and then reassured viewers that there was nothing wrong with the term itself."It does lack definition because we haven't given it full definition yet," he said. He then compared the ambiguity around the definition of the metaverse to the confusion people experienced in the early 1990s when they were making sense of the internet."The internet actually is still, to this day, kind of hard to define," he said, adding:"Except that we all know what it is because we use it."

Bosworth said that the issue with the metaverse is that even the people working on it have different understandings of the term. Though, that's normal when you're working on developing new technologies, he added. At the same time, Bosworth admitted that Meta never expected its rebrand — and by extension the term metaverse — to garner so much attention."We were worried that people wouldn't even notice," he said, adding:"We definitely exceeded our goals on the rebrand."

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 729. in FİNANCE

Finance Finance Latest News, Finance Finance Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Meta's Threads solved the chicken-or-egg problem plaguing social startupsInsider tells the global tech, finance, markets, media, healthcare, and strategy stories you want to know.
Source: BusinessInsider - 🏆 729. / 51 Read more »

Here's exactly how much money I made at Google, Meta, and LinkedInInsider tells the global tech, finance, markets, media, healthcare, and strategy stories you want to know.
Source: BusinessInsider - 🏆 729. / 51 Read more »