{"id":95626,"date":"2021-11-12T15:10:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T19:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=95626"},"modified":"2021-11-12T15:10:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T19:10:02","slug":"the-metaverse-is-the-ultimate-surveillance-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=95626","title":{"rendered":"The Metaverse Is the Ultimate Surveillance Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Silicon Valley is rushing to build the next big thing and people should be skeptical of their intent.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more-->By Matthew Gault<br \/>\nMOTHERBOARD<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_95627\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1636665389189-1635445453903-screen-shot-2021-10-28-at-10729-pm.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95627\" class=\"wp-image-95627 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1636665389189-1635445453903-screen-shot-2021-10-28-at-10729-pm.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1636665389189-1635445453903-screen-shot-2021-10-28-at-10729-pm.webp 500w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1636665389189-1635445453903-screen-shot-2021-10-28-at-10729-pm-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IMAGE: FACEBOOK<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__body-components\" data-component=\"BodyComponentRenderer\">\n<p>The Metaverse. The term was coined by author Neal Stephenson in his book\u00a0<em>Snow Crash<\/em>. It was a digital playground where people were only limited by their imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/qjb485\/zuckerberg-facebook-new-name-meta-metaverse-presentation\">changed its name<\/a>\u00a0to Meta and says it\u2019s trying to make the metaverse a reality. Now, other companies are rushing to get a piece of Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s vision of the future. Here to help me puzzle out the nightmarish world Silicon Valley billionaires want for us is Motherboard Senior Editor Janus Rose and panopticon expert and professor of English at Macomb Community College Chris Gilliard.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__embed-component\" data-component=\"OEmbedBlock\">\n<div class=\"article__embed-component__content\">\n<div>\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/oembed.vice.com\/eQndaBM\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This wide-ranging conversation starts with Rose\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/88g9vv\/zuckerbergs-meta-endgame-is-monetizing-all-human-behavior\">recent piece<\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em>\u201cZuckerberg\u2019s Meta Endgame Is Monetizing All Human Behavior\u201d, but it gets into the deeper and systemic issues around machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the kind of future we want.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/bvnxbm\/the-metaverse-is-the-ultimate-surveillance-tool\">https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/bvnxbm\/the-metaverse-is-the-ultimate-surveillance-tool<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley is rushing to build the next big thing and people should be skeptical of their intent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}