World Economic Forum to Accelerate Push for Global ‘Metaverse’ Surveillance Network at Davos 2023
- World Economic Forum to Accelerate Push for Global ‘Metaverse’ Surveillance Network at Davos 2023
by Jordan Schachtel, https://dossier.substack.com/
Davos turns to the Metaverse as the next frontier for technocratic tyranny.
During its 2023 Davos conference, the World Economic Forum will host a press conference on its “Building The Metaverse Initiative,” and release key “studies” and details about its efforts to further facilitate what appears to amount to a global surveillance network, according to documents reviewed by The Dossier.
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The Metaverse, a buzzworthy bumper sticker slogan that refers to a whole host of ideas in the technology space, has potential current and future applications both for private and governmental entities. It will be featured as one of the core staples of the 2023 Davos conference.
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What is the Metaverse, exactly? The term Metaverse was invented by author Neal Stephenson in his 1992 sci-fi novel Snow Crash, in which citizens used digital avatars as a means to escape their dystopian reality.
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Today it can be defined as “a vision of what many in the computer industry believe is the next iteration of the internet: a single, shared, immersive, persistent, 3D virtual space where humans experience life in ways they could not in the physical world.” Before its expanded definition, the Metaverse encompassed a technologically advancing virtual and augmented reality space.
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