
Government in the Metaverse
Governments stand to benefit from ‘metaverse’ and its associated technologies: Ever since Facebook became Meta, the “metaverse”—a term coined in the early 1990s referring to a network of virtual three-dimensional worlds—has been a hot topic of conversation online, at home and in many town halls. The implications of this next generation of digital interaction, and the technology that’s driving it toward reality, is profound.