When one of my daughters was about 3 or 4, she asked me if I rode to school on a horse. In her mind, adults grew up in the so-called olden days, in a sepia-tinged time before cars, cell phones or the internet. One day, her daughter might ask her a similar question: What was life like before the metaverse?
In the future, we might barely remember life before the metaverse — just like we sometimes struggle to recall the days before PCs or Wi-Fi. The metaverse may change everything we know about the cyber universe, but the security profession doesn’t quite know what to make of it.