Is the metaverse bad for the environment? Exploring a VR world
“I describe the metaverse as the internet on steroids,” said Todd Richmond, a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as well as the director of the Tech + Narrative Lab and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
“We’ve had internal conversations in our lab and with our students about net zero and how you calculate them, and my sense is a lot of net-zero calculations are deeply flawed,” Richmond said.
