The notion of Facebook snooping into our private lives to create algorithms that predict our feelings and preferences is creepy enough. But the popular social media platform is set to launch a new and even more bizarre venue for social interaction.
In November, Facebook announced a company name shift to “Meta”. The name change also proposes a complete shift in how users will interact with one another. Metaverse is a digitally fabricated world that masks our real world.
Users on Metaverse will be able to build virtual reality. If you’re not a fan of alternate realities, then Metaverse may not excite your interest. However, one aspect of the new virtual reality social media platform has to snag anyone’s attention, whether they are potential users or not.
Leave it to the creepy Mark Zuckerberg to create something even creepier than his snoopy, privacy-invading Facebook platform. According to experts who have been researching Metaverse, apparently users may someday be able to upload their brains to the platform.
One wild-eyed Russian billionaire proclaims this as a way to eternal life. You just can’t take your physical body along for the ride. Dmitry Itskov has a lot of money. Evidently, he has so much money that he doesn’t quite know what to do with it all.
Itskov is part of a non-profit organization called the “2045 Initiative”. This is a group that purports to be working on methods to increase the human lifespan. Istkov’s group thinks that artificial bodies will be available by mid-century. This is a pretty radical concept.
The 2045 Initiative thinks that through artificial intelligence, and the new Metaverse technology, people will be able to upload their minds to the web. This could bring about the possibility of living forever. The ultimate concept is the ability to replicate your brain into an artificial machine.
Essentially, at least according to futurist Tom Cheesewright, we will “input our consciousness” into AI and VR robots. There’s an obvious tendency for bad people, usually with a lot of money, to manipulate and control things.
What happens when a bad person transfers their devious brain into an indestructible robot? Leave it to Zuckerberg to be part of something so creepy. From an innocent social media idea, the world might gain the ability to create a real-life Terminator. Now that’s truly terrifying.
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