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Is Metaverse a new threat to higher education?
Higher education is humanity’s most valuable weapon against any kind of domination that technology could introduce to life.
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Virtual or real?: A man wears a VR headset during the DCentral Miami conference at the Miami Airport Convention Center, in Miami, Florida, the United States, Dec. 1, 2021. (AFP)
I love technology because it offers the accessibility to do almost anything from grocery shopping to learning. It is efficient.
The continuous evolution of technology screams the inevitability of virtual reality for almost all human activities – and I was okay with that, until the moment when I started seeing the harrowing future costs of virtual reality to humans’ critical consciousness.
Technology offers us plenty of routes to make money easily. As long as you have got a smartphone with a decent camera, you can start a vlog and YouTube will pay you a decent, if not extremely generous, amount of money.
The content that gets the highest pay is not necessarily educational or at the very least insightful. Most of the time it is personal lives where the vloggers technically invite the audience to intrude on their lives. If you become some sort of social media celebrity, you could also be an influencer and get decent money to promote brands that you actually have no idea what they are.
And with the right gambling strategy, you could be rich just from “investing” in cryptocurrencies. You do not have to be rich to join the crypto business.
Recently, Mark Zuckerberg introduced the Metaverse, a virtual reality that shortly will be a part of us. There is no turning back once we are in the Metaverse.
And just like any other technological invention, people get excited. Too excited even, that the idea of probable negative consequences is abandoned. What I see is a fast technological development that makes life easier, but on the other hand, because it is easier, it designs the future as a world where money has fully overpowered humans and higher education has starkly reduced worth.
