The Metaverse Lesson

Do you remember during the pandemic when we all started working from home? How we all thought it was going to be the future?

Do you remember when working from home was gradually reduced and they said it was about teamwork, collective creativity, the magic of being in a room together?

Do you remember when working from home became a privilege?

Do you remember when the same people told us the metaverse was the future? That we’d all be there, together, in community?

And now those same people are telling everyone to get an AI agent. Your AI will draft for you, brainstorm for you, work autonomously, even talk to other AI agents. All of this while you sit in the office.

These are the same people building bunkers in New Zealand. Not communes. Bunkers.

It was never about creativity or collaboration, was it?

Originally written for LinkedIn on 22 April 2026. View original →