It’s the next big breakthrough in technology. It’s a joke. It’s a marketing strategy. It’s a techno-dystopian nightmare. It’s the metaverse, and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. Facebook’s investment in the metaverse is something we should take seriously. If the metaverse becomes everything Zuckerberg wants it to be, it could similarly shake up the world, shifting our existence in which our digital presence supplements our real one...