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1 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
"The Metaverse may become one of the forms of the Internet in the future, and may reshape the world's digital economic ecology today... and will inevitably have an impact on national security" - China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) on the 元宇宙 1/5 Image
Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined his vision for the future of the Internet, which he calls "the Metaverse". For the unengaged, the metaverse is where the physical and digital (virtual) worlds come together.
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It's a space where digital representations of people – avatars – interact at work and play. At the center of this universe will be virtual reality (VR), a digital world that you can already enter via Facebook’s Oculus VR headsets.
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In response to his declaration, CICIR, a leading think tank that reports to the Ministry of State Security and is under the supervision of the Central Committee of the CCP, was quick to publish a very interesting article on the national security implications of the Metaverse.
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Among other things, it calls for developing the "necessary supervision and guidance".
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 Link: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/hlN7k-_4ZSft…
* The above caption was a joke. If you die in the Metaverse, you won't actually die in real life. Yet.

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