"When somebody is using their phone and you're physically with them, they're at the dinner table with you, and yet when you talk to them, they hear nothing, because they've transported themselves through the glowing rectangle into a digital space. And it doesn't have to be three dimensional, maybe they're scrolling media, maybe that they're in a text world, but like they have transported themselves."
The metaverse is conceptualized as an expansive digital-physical construct where individuals mentally relocate into digital environments through their devices. When someone uses their phone at a dinner table, they physically remain present but mentally inhabit a digital space—whether three-dimensional or text-based—becoming mentally unavailable to those around them. This phenomenon of transportation through screens into digital worlds represents a fundamental shift in how people experience presence and attention, blurring the boundaries between physical and digital existence.
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