The Negative Side of the Immersive Internet
Technology is neutral. It can bring prosperity to humanity or bring pain and destruction to society. The metaverse will not be any different. We can expect any of the crimes committed in the real world to take place, and potentially explode, on the immersive internet.
As a species, we have gotten very good at moving fast and breaking things but less capable at going slow and thinking first. Just like the current internet has caused a flood of problems, we can expect the metaverse to be the same or even see the current problems extrapolated.
The challenges in the metaverse will be plentiful. Therefore, we need to think carefully about avoiding making the same mistakes as we did when building Web 2.0 and focus on building an open, safe metaverse.
