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30 years later, millennials will be on their smartphones while complaining kids these days never come out of their VR world.

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That someday EDM will be considered music for the elderly is endlessly amusing.

When I was first going to nightclubs, Disco and Funk were counter-cultures. Disco was hated by the establishment because it was associated with homosexuality at a time when the Toronto police were conducting bath house raids and arresting bookstores for carrying queer literature. Funk was, as one documentary put it, "An unapologetic celebration of blackness."

Today I can listen to Disco and Funk any time I want, all I have to do is push a shopping cart around the supermarket. And yes, I turned 60 this year.

Isn't EDM that horribly repetitive thing you have to be high or drunk to really enjoy?

Most music is extremely repetitive; it's not like they usually play prog rock for grocery store BGM.

(Well, recently I was in a Whole Foods and they played Once in a Lifetime, which is at least a little different…)

Repetitive and awfully loud, at least in clubs.

Few people mind repetitive low volume music.

EDM is an extremely diverse genre.

Do you have some links? The stuff I've heard is the stuff they blast in night clubs and all I remember was boom - boom - boom - boom for minutes on end.

Nick Swardson bit on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7IlUIi-idA

Nice try, zuck.

In all seriousness, I suspect this is probably correct. I imagine things will be very VR-oriented and Zuckerberg is actually on the right track, just way too early.

Maybe he should have targeted the elderly from the start. People who can't leave the house easily might get more out of the experience. It seems inane to me having a metaverse which is just the real world with bad graphics but without my health and mobility it could be a different story.

Maybe market from old on down with this product

just way too early

That is far from Meta's only problem. They are well known as a manipulative corporation with little accountability for their actions or care for their users.

That only means they're likely to become even more dominant, thus proving parent's point.

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