Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote address talking up his latest passion – creating a virtual reality “metaverse” for business, entertainment and meaningful social interactions. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) November 28, 2021 Facebook’s rebranding is anything but ‘meta’ Christopher Lockett, Memorial University of Newfoundland To be meta about Meta would involve reflecting upon the fact that Facebook is a company that designs technology around people.
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After a decade in almost pure thriller fiction, the Neuromancer creator returns to his roots. Ociacia November 27, 2014 New William Gibson novel revives his 1980s cyberpunk vision Sarah Artt, Edinburgh Napier University You might almost have thought there was nothing much more for science fiction to say about avatars or time travel. As far back as 1992, years before anyone had thought of Second Life, the US writer Neil…