Metaverse – the Next Internet or Just a Glorified Video Game?
Intro: A Dream Decades in the Making
The term “Metaverse” isn’t new. It was coined by author Neal Stephenson
in his seminal 1992 cyberpunk novel, Snow Crash, to describe a persistent,
shared virtual space where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and
software agents. For decades, it lived in the realms of science fiction,
a distant dream for tech enthusiasts.