LIFE IN THE YEAR 2100 (PART III)_ How Will the Metaverse Impact Our World Between Now and the 2100s_

What will happen in the year 2100? Will robots take over our world? Will we be living in virtual worlds? Are we going to be living and working in the metaverse? The Metaverse seems to be the hottest topic of the hour. It’s definitely going to impact our world between now and the 2100s. If you happen to trust what Mark Zuckerberg says, by 2031 we might all be living and working in the metaverse. In case you’re still trying to get your head around what the metaverse is, it’s a series of virtual worlds, which will become one day the most important new technology platform since the arrival of the web. At least, that’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks. He appears to be so convinced that the metaverse will be our future that he announced last week that he is going to create 10,000 new jobs in the EU to build it. So, if you happen to be a believer in the metaverse or the matrix, as some refer to it, then be ready to join the “real world”, the Mark Zuckerberg way. This is where you will need to choose between the red pill to become part of the resistance or the blue pill to forget you ever knew there was a real-world out there and re-join the rest of humanity in serving the machines. This was the plot of the 1999 movie The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves as Neo, and Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, who are led to fight an underground war against powerful computers who have constructed an entire reality with a system called the Matrix. Going by the movie, will you be willing to take the red pill, stay in Wonderland and let Mark Zuckerberg show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes? Or will you take the blue pill where the story ends, and you wake up in your bed believing whatever it is you want to believe? So, if you want to be part of the resistance, like Neo in the Matrix, then go ahead and join Mark Zuckerberg, and make the world much more digital than it already is. And if you happen to believe someone who, allegedly, stole the idea of ConnectU in 2004 to create Facebook, then the metaverse is definitely going to be the next big thing for you. But what is the metaverse? And why does Zuckerberg want Facebook to become an online 'metaverse'? More importantly, will there be multiple multiverses run by different companies? If the metaverse does prove as powerful a platform as Mark Zuckerberg suggests it would be, would we want it to be run by him, given all the damage Facebook did to everything from democracy to the mental health of teenagers? I spoke to a number of experts who expressed their hopes that Facebook doesn't end up ruling the metaverse, and that Mark Zuckerberg, who, by the way, is one of the most hated people in the tech world, as British magazine Wired wrote in its April 2018 issue, will not be building our new world, the Morpheus way in the Matrix movie series. Even Big Tech giants, who believe they are the masters of our universe, don’t seem to be happy with Mark Zuckerberg ruling the world through the metaverse. Last week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey described the metaverse as, "a virtual world owned by corporations where end-users were treated as citizens in a dystopian corporate dictatorship." Regardless of what Jack Dorsey says or believes, the concept of the metaverse is quickly becoming a buzzword in the world of technology and business. Some think it’s bad, others believe it’s nothing but a fantasy of power, while the dreamers among us would like to believe that it’s based on the premise of the Matrix, the movie. So, if you seek the truth about the metaverse, watch it unfold in what I’m about to show you. I’m Michael Taifour and I’ll be taking you on a journey like no other, into the deepest corners of the rabbit hole where the mysteries of the world unveil and their darkest secrets reveal.