Slack Co-founder Says Metaverse Seems Dystopian

In an interview with Forbes, Slack Co-Founder Stewart Butterfield talked about what he thinks of future work spaces and metaverse.

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Slack CEO thinks augmented reality has a lot of industrial applications or workplace applications.

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Butterfield admitted there are great uses for metaverse for example, if you're doing a surgery, having an overlay on the organs that you're looking at.

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Slack CEO opined that metaverse for novelty use seems dystopian.

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“It seems so dystopian to me to imagine that you would sit down and put anything on,” Butterfield added.

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Tech firms like Apple are also foraying into the metaverse.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions metaverse to be the next big thing in the tech world.

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