F-Book to Meta?

 I sat and watched the Facebook episode with Zuckerberg explaining the name change (to Meta) and how the future unfolds.  Then I sat and pondered for a while.

This fantasy video that Zucky showed....eventually gave me this idea that within the next five years....you will be able to drive home....sit in a chair with googles on and have a chat with four friends.  

The four 'friends'?  Well....it's pretty good odds that they will all be imaginary and fake.  

Marty will be some world-traveler, who is pro-environment, continually in need of a 'safe space', drinks only glacier water from Canada, and is continually confused about things.

Maja will be your Swedish friend, who is 50-percent male/50-percent female, hyped-up on vegan food, drinks Swedish glacier water, sings Elvis Presley tunes, wears most Green Bay Packers clothing, and has never been beyond Sweden in her life.

Birger will be your Viking friend, who reads Scottish erotic stories, thrilled about Egyptian pyramid chatter, sips Nile River water, and allows himself a piece of chocolate once a week.

Muffin will be your New York City friend, who tells gritty stories about the subway, hypes up environmental issues, sips mostly coffee (nine cups a day) and feels continually depressed about Trump.

None of them are real....it's just that Zucky rigged up some massive server in Utah and it builds 'friends' for people who don't want human attachment.  

You're feed a thousand bits of info about yourself into the system, and it'll spit out imaginary 'friends' to fulfill your life. 

What'll happen when the bulk of F-book people realize this end-game?  It's hard to say.  Some might readily approve of it.  Some might go and ask if they can retrieve the old F-book server, and just have plain regular and real friends.

So, if you thought things today were confusing....just wait.  

Observations

 1.  Joe in Rome.  I had to sit and read through several stories, and there are two that stand out.

First, President Biden wrapped up his visit to the Vatican with a drive-around-Rome episode.  I'm guessing the mayor arranged this with several hundred police holding off traffic, while the Presidential motorcade passed around forty odd historic sites.  The group never stopped....far as I can tell....Joe just looked at the window and someone probably said 'we just passed such-and-such'.  The comical side of this....there were a total of 85 vehicles.  There was the entourage, the Secret Service team, support personnel, etc.  If you wanted to make a anti-statement about climate change and the way that we accomplish it....the 85 vehicles would be a good starting point.

Second, Joe's team had some type of scripted deal that they wanted Pope Francis to say and do, with cameras running.  The Pope was supposed say such-and-such....Joe had memorized some lines and would respond with such-and-such.  Choreographed?  Yeah.  The Pope's people, at least until that morning thought it was just some talking topics, and once the choreography was apparent.....they said 'NO'.....we ain't some type of TV production (like Knight Rider, MacGyver, or the Fall Guy).  At that point of the 'show' starting up.....live coverage stopped.  This brings me ask.....day after day in America, since day one of the administration....has it been the 'Joe-Show'?

2.  Kaepernick came out and said that the NFL draft system was somewhat like slavery.  He didn't say much about how he'd replace it.  I paused over the draft system....which gives loser-teams a chance to get a decent pick, and maybe rebuild (of course, unless you were the Bengals of Cincinnati).  If you just threw things out, and said it was purely about money offerings, then teams like the Patriots or Rams would be in the Super Bowl nine times out of ten and forever be signing the best players each year.  If you wanted advance past the Patriots/Rams....you'd have to pay a tremendous amount of money, and ticket prices for various teams would double within two to four years.  

It's just another occasion that logic defies the Kaepernick vision.

3.  Some study was done....really just a poll....where they asked folks if they had witnessed ghostly things in their house/apartment.  83-percent of Americans said 'yeah'.   Now, no one asked if they were smoking some cannabis, drinking heavily or maybe doing a bit of LSD when this occurred.

4.  There are now four different versions of 'Lets Go Brandon' in the I-Tunes top ten.  It seems like every three or four days....someone cranks out a pretty good tune with the magic words.