I suppose there had to come a time where plain old reality became a little too old.  Seeing the radiance and contrast in a star-lit night,  Feeling the years in the complex texture of a long-standing oak tree,  Hearing the layered bubbling of a smooth river... Experiences like this have an expiration date, right? They become tired like anything else. Especially when hot competition is all around. Enter modernity with our technologically profound novel realities: phones, apps, games, VR, movies, etc. It's a bold new world and the old world, the one that man did not generate, just cannot keep up.  Our fearless leader is none other than the great king Zuck himself - I mean Mark Zuckerberg of course - who will not stop until an entirely new universe is formed, a Metaverse with the aim of "Immersive all day experiences" (1). How great is our king. Those who do not kneel will certainly be left to perish in the waning days of the old world - right?  I beg to differ. No...