The metaverse offers a future full of potential – for terrorists and extremists, too

-National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Centre.

National Scaremongering Unit, lobbying for government control, back doors and universal surveillance.

The metaverse may have a vastly lower take-up than most internet services. The headsets didn't take off for gaming and may not for social media either. After a honeymoon period, the metaverse may quickly become a niche market. And the sky is unlikely to fall in. It would be a great benefit if terrorists switched from attacking people in the real world to doing anything in virtual reality. Unfortunately, they are likely to stick with the real world stuff.

People don’t need this garbage. For humans to have the intelligence to create this technology, it baffles me that we are so so so stupid. Get a life and go outdoors. Nobody needs augmented reality. Actual reality is scary enough.

GaijinjlandToday  10:49 am JST

People don’t need this garbage. For humans to have the intelligence to create this technology, it baffles me that we are so so so stupid. Get a life and go outdoors. Nobody needs augmented reality. Actual reality is scary enough.

Quoted for truth.

Here we go again.... we must surrender all innovation, privacy and free speech because of those pesky terrorists and extremists.

 There is profit to be had in hate and division.

Not to mention profit and power to be had by stoking irrational fear.

People with malicious intent are already noting that the metaverse is a potential tool in their arsenal.

The specter of terrorists and extremists has been the go to boogeyman in worlds virtual and real. But with SNS and surveillance it is the corporatocracy union of moneyed and political interests that is the greatest threat to the future beyond extremists in digital ghettos.

GaijinjlandJan. 12  10:49 am JST

People don’t need this garbage. For humans to have the intelligence to create this technology, it baffles me that we are so so so stupid. Get a life and go outdoors. Nobody needs augmented reality. Actual reality is scary enough.

Like all technology, the meraverse has the potential for good and evil. The cyberpunk novel series has predicted this.

KniknaknokkaerJan. 12  11:34 am JST

So not content with screwing up the real world we seem determined to screw up the virtual world.

We have cyberpunk hacker groups like Anonymous and Crybaby pulling computer virus pranks. We've had some of that even before the internet became available to the public. And Donald Trump was installed in the WH because of Russian cyberhacking. It's already here, like it or not.