Let’s put it in simple terms, the metaverse is coming towards us whether we like it or not. So is it a wolf or a sheep?

"Suddenly, as if overnight, a spring breeze came, and thousands of peach trees blossomed." This line from the Tang Dynasty poet Cen Shen couldn't be more appropriate to describe the current metaverse. Last month, the metaverse was still a niche, and few people knew about it, but now it is almost a household name.

Is the Metaverse a wolf or a sheep?

But is the Metaverse like peach blossoms? It looks a bit like a blossom. Ever since Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced at the company’s annual meeting on October 28 that he would change the name of his company from “Facebook” to “Meta” (the prefix of the word Metaverse), the concept of the Metaverse has suddenly blossomed all over the mountains like peach blossoms in spring.

Subsequently, world-class giants such as Microsoft, Google, and Apple, and China's leading information industry companies such as Tencent, Alibaba, and ByteDance have all joined in. Now almost all IT and information industry giants in the world have announced that they will increase their investment in the metaverse. From this perspective, it really is a bit like a spring breeze coming overnight.

But what bloomed seemed to be not peach blossoms, but poppies. Many people exclaimed that the Metaverse suddenly descended on the world, "Wolf is coming!" The famous Liu Cixin even believed that this was an involution of mankind and a great disaster for mankind. These opponents compared the Metaverse to drugs, or even worse than drugs, and said that it was the rhythm of future humans detaching from reality and committing suicide.

What exactly is the metaverse?

To put it bluntly, the metaverse is a virtual reality, a virtual world that many people now see with their glasses. This virtual world is three-dimensional, and people can interact with virtual scenes in it and linger on.

This actually looks very simple, but it will not be simple if it develops further. It will become a parallel world with the real world, one yin and one yang, one real and one virtual, equally divided. In fact, the prototype of the metaverse has long entered the human world, and some have become addicted, such as playing games to the point of insanity, doing nothing all day long but indulging in games, making them neither human nor ghost.

With the continuous development of quantum mechanics and information technology, the metaverse of the future will be almost real. As long as you wear a full set of equipment, or even just stick electrodes on your scalp, you can truly feel everything that is exactly the same as in reality, and you can do whatever you want.

Therefore, many people are worried that if future humans become addicted to this virtual world, the real world will be destroyed.

In fact, it won't

Nowadays, only a few people are addicted to playing games, while most people are still moving bricks, working as part-time workers, being doctors, doing education, and doing scientific research. Moreover, with the development of technologies such as VR and AR, they are being used in education and training, remote medical diagnosis, and even surgery, leading a new trend, breaking through traditional methods, and bringing more benefits to mankind.

Of course, the development of the metaverse will be closer and closer to reality, and more and more realistic, which will attract more and more people to participate in it. In this way, our world is divided into two worlds, one is the real world, where we have to continue eating, drinking, defecating and urinating; the other is a virtual world that is just like the real world, which exists in parallel with the real world, so some people call the metaverse a "parallel universe."

Many people are optimistic about this parallel universe, rather than pessimistic. For example, Elon Musk, who is highly praised by Liu Cixin, has not only created a legend in deep space exploration in the real world, but has also long been involved in the field of the metaverse. For example, the human-computer interface he developed combines human consciousness with machines, and perfectly combines virtuality with reality.

Will the development of the metaverse paralyze the entire social mechanism?

I don't think so, because the Metaverse is more used for social development and human benefit. For example, education and training, skills training, remote communication, medical interaction, and even national defense wars, aerospace can all be carried out through the combination of the Metaverse and reality, so that people don't have to spend huge travel expenses to do all kinds of things.

Moreover, people can also use Metaverse technology to work anywhere or at home, doing both white-collar mental work and blue-collar production activities, because they can connect the virtual world to the real world and start various machines, instruments, and equipment to complete various tasks.

If a country or company does not quickly develop a metaverse consciousness and does not keep up with the times in this regard, it will be eliminated by the rapidly developing technology and will be in a passive position. Therefore, the metaverse is not a problem that will paralyze society in the future, but a problem that if you do not join, you will lag behind in development and be abandoned by the new trend.

Of course, enjoyment is also one of the functions of the metaverse

These pleasures include traveling, making friends, falling in love, etc. As long as people wear certain equipment or implant a certain chip device in the brain, they can get completely real feelings and do many things that can only be imagined but not realized in reality.

For example, the super-rich can spend hundreds of millions of dollars to travel to outer space or Mars, while the ordinary people can only watch with drooling eyes. Only the Metaverse is the hope of the ordinary people, which can narrow the distance between the big guys and the common people. At that time, you only need to spend 100 yuan to enjoy a space trip, and spend 1,000 yuan to stay on Mars for a week, and the experience is almost the same as that of the rich. Would you refuse such a good thing?

After having fun, you can go back to work (of course, you can also do this through the Metaverse), save some money, and then enjoy yourself. Some people will become addicted to it, but should we deprive many people of their normal and beautiful desires?

So, I say that the metaverse is neither the wolf nor the lamb. It is a double-edged sword, just like a kitchen knife, which can be used to cut vegetables for people to enjoy, but can also kill people. We can't ban all kitchen knives just because someone killed someone with a kitchen knife, right?

After reading this, what do you think the metaverse is? Anyway, everyone has the right to speak, whether they are wolves or sheep, and everyone has the final say. Welcome to discuss, thank you for reading.

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