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Metaverse could be renamed to escape (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by SteppingOnLegos@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Just like mail in electronic form is called email, virtual worlds chould be called escapes.

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[–] bitcrafter@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

In a way this naming makes more sense, because an important aspect of the virtual worlds in science fiction that many people seem to idolize is that they were as appealing as they were due to a large part because the real world was such a dystopia that they were desperate for an escape from it, even if it meant living inside a world that existed only inside a computer.