It's interesting to consider this viewpoint 30 years later and wonder what will bring about the next age. Is it something in it's infancy being dismissing as a fad? Have we even thought of it yet?
"The Metaverse" is still fundamentally the same as other content/experience the same way 3D movies are fundamentally the same as 2D movies.
Being able to see a projection of someone in chair next to you does not really deepen or hasten the sharing of ideas in any drastic way compares to pre-internet vs post-internet communication.
If I had to guess, my suspicion is that direct brain-to-brain communication is the next epoch-definiting development.
