CCATP #707 – Tom Merritt on Meta and the Metaverse

In late October, Facebook announced that The Facebook Company was name to Meta. A little bit later, Mark Zuckerberg published a video (https://about.facebook.com/meta/?_ga=2.180284002.714213125.1638470483-494341441.1638470483) where he described his vision of the future metaverse. I haven’t been following this too closely but it seems to be turning into something I might want to understand. I asked Tom Merritt, host of Daily Tech News Show (https://dailytechnewsshow.com) and many other fine shows, to come on Chit Chat to try to make sense of these two things for us. We talk about what the name change for Facebook really means and what it probably doesn’t mean (is it just like Google becoming part of Alphabet?) Then Tom explains the vision of what the metaverse is expected to be. I thought it was a fascinating explanation and I learned a lot from talking to Tom. During the conversation, Tom references his show Know a Little More (https://play.acast.com/s/know-a-little-more) where he explains complex technical topics in a short form, deep dive format. He talks in Chit Chat about NFTs and Blockchain, but suggests listening to his episodes on those topics if you want to, well, know a little more. If you’d like to find all of Tom’s podcasts, and the books he’s written, you can find all of his work at tommerritt.com.