La veille de la cybersécurité

There's a lot of media hype these days about the "coming of the metaverse" and a fair amount of hand-wringing about what it's going to look like. In computing, the term metaverse is defined as "a virtual-reality space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and other users." This definition is both broad and vague. As a result, doomsdayers treat great sci-fi stories like Neuromancer, Snowcrash and Ready Player One as prophetic warnings of a dystopian future metaverse. Meanwhile, today's tech visionaries have called the metaverse the future of computing and are promising a new VR/AR/IRL-blended reality and a total addressable market worth potentially $13 trillion by 2030. It's easy to see why parents might fear for their children's safety, attention spans and ability to socialize IRL.