Thank you for this, Attila.

In my view, Facebook's turn into metaverse (with the lower m) is the further development into what can be called 'an online scenario for the Earth'. I wrote an article on the bifurcation point we all go through nowdays: 'Two scenarios: Technologies for people vs. Humans for machines'. Though it is in Russian, that might be of interest to you to translate it with google:

https://ekhramkova.medium.com/пост-кризисный-мир-2020-8718a0ee11e9