Big Tech, stop saying `metaverse.` It`s unbecoming.
(Windows Phone Central)

If you don`t know what it means, don`t say it. Every couple of years a new piece of jargon comes along that gets Silicon Valley very, very excited. We are now at that juncture once again, wherein `metaverse` has become the word du jour. Things you used to know simply as `VR` or `video games` have now become part of the omnipresent `meta` vortex. Meta this, meta that. In the words of the late, great Norm Macdonald: `I hate meta.` The very concept of meta and the metaverse wouldn`t be so frustrating if Big Tech had a cohesive vision for what it meant. But each company appears to be saying the words within the context of their own disparate inventions, analysts and `experts` are spamming `metaverse` in what feels like an effort to stay on top of a trend they didn`t know was coming, and everyone`s making a big fuss out of nothing. This phenomenon needs to stop. A metatextual misunderstanding When did the rise of the metaverse begin? Well, based on the current smorgasbord of definit...