So much for the metaverse. Facebook share value has halved since refocusing on global domination through some parallel computer metaverse; crypto has crashed; and computer game sales are down since the 'end' of the pandemic. Sure, I accept the Metaverse will come - that day when we choose to be where we want, when we want, doing what we want, through some form of augmented reality. But talk of a metaverse is on my reckoning about, say, a millennium early. For now, it is just a mirage on the horizon. Technological change is incremental. It still takes me 10 minutes to type in a show search on my TV. Any talk of a metaverse is way premature.