Navigator: After the Pandemic Comes … the Metaverse?
Seoul became the first major city to announce that it will enter the metaverse.
Photographer: ED JONES/AFPWelcome to today's edition of Navigator, CityLab's Saturday newsletter.
While we have yet to find solutions for the existential woes of the real world, many are already dreaming of life elsewhere. Some are seriously looking at building a city on Mars, while the likes of Mark Zuckerberg have already moved on to an entirely different universe… sorta. If tech giants like Facebook — I mean, Meta — and Microsoft have it their way, the future is in the so-called metaverse.