This past October, tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg announced his company Facebook was changing its name to Meta to quote “reflect its focus on building a metaverse.” But what exactly is a metaverse? What are the concerns that come with it? What are the possibilities? In this episode, Saint Mary’s Currents host Ben Rodgers is joined by business and data analytics professor Michael Ratajczyk and philosophy professor Joe Tadie to discuss the metaverse, its potential uses, and the ethics surrounding the technology.
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