Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth was asked that question in an AMA he held over Instagram Stories on his profile on Thursday evening. His response:
The metaverse term is fine. There’s nothing wrong with the term. It does lack definition because we haven’t given it full definition yet.
He also argued that it’s similar to how people were trying to define the internet in the 90s (and said that the internet is still hard to define).
I don’t completely agree with that characterization — the metaverse feels much more nebulous to me than the internet ever did — but I am curious if the concept of the metaverse eventually goes on to be something more widely understood.
And Boz doesn’t seem worried, saying that “I think new technology is always like this.”
