Attendees try out the Caliverse Hyper-Realistic Metaverse experience at the Lotte booth at CES 2023 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, in Las Vegas, Nev., on Jan. 5, 2023. Alex Wong/Getty Images
It was Oct. 28, 2021, during the digital hell of the worst days of lockdowns that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would change its name to Meta. It seemed an odd decision for the company with a global brand name and an implausible success story that even made it to the big screen.
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
