'You know, you can smell a bad idea before it's fully built.'
"I went to first grade in the Soviet Union," he explained. "I was subjected to a lot of Soviet propaganda, and I was told as a little kid repeatedly: 'Communism doesn't exist yet. We haven't built communism yet. We're building towards communism.'"
Despite the many promises, that utopian vision was never fully realized. And to Libin, the same thing applies to Meta's promises of a fully fledged virtual world that one day could rival reality. "You know, you can smell a bad idea before it's fully built," he told Newcomer on the podcast. "So I don't want to hear 'Oh yeah, the metaverse doesn't exist yet. No, no, no, all this stuff, all this stupid, useless, crappy stuff that exists right now, that's not the metaverse. The metaverse is coming — it's coming.'".
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