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Dec 2021
24m 20s

Meditations on the Metaverse

BBC Sounds
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On the 28th of October, 2021, Facebook announced The Future…aka, a corporate rebrand. By changing the name of their parent company to Meta, they set out a vision for a new internet. Here, you can meet your colleagues in a virtual meeting room, and/or fence with Mark Zuckerberg. It's all in a day's browsing....

In this final episode of Series 1, comedian Olga Koch and journalist Hussein Kesvani ask: 'what exactly *is* the metaverse?'

After all, it’s Meta’s world, we’re just living in it.

Human Error is a Daddy’s SuperYacht production for BBC Sounds.

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