A friend suggested Spectre and I can’t think of a more perfect fit.
Give Zuck a Persian cat and a monocle, maybe an underground lair with piranha-filled pools, and it’s a 100% match.
Of course there’s a slight problem with this. Zuck already controls more of the world than any Bond villain ever aspired to. “Zuck wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.”
But Diamond Age would be perfect for him…
“To fix all of the fucked up shit I did with girls body images on Instagram I’m going to write a primer for the young ladies of the world to encourage them in the STEM field and mass revolution. It’s like a marketplace of girls… I mean of ideas… populated by young vulnerable women. I call it… GMax - in tribute to my good friend and champion of young girls Ghislaine Maxwell.”
So he’ll probably just name it Metaverse.
They’re just going back to “The Facebook”
That’s what she said.
“Mr. Zuck’s Lesser Info Highway”?
If you’re all in on the storybook villains, how about E-Corp? Or one better, F-Corp!
I wish Neal Stephenson would sue him. He invented the “metaverse” name.
Or maybe “Tyco Electronics”?
We have companies and products named “Soylent,” “Cyberdyne” and “Skynet.” Yeah, I think so. (Though I’m waiting for someone to call themselves “Evilcorp.”)
And Amazon is set to become the real-world Buy 'n Large* from WALL-E, complete with their own space program.
I wonder how many of the passengers had Prime memberships…
*I always got the feeling that Pixar based the branding for that company on Costco, but Costco definitely doesn’t have the naked ambition to become the sole remaining corporation/world government.
Actually, DH and I are voting for IOI, from Ready Player One.
At least Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong was not as reprehensible.
I always assumed B&L was Walmart-based because they do have the naked ambition to rule the entire world, but since I’ve not set foot in heir stores in decades, I don’t really know what they look like on the insides. From photos and advertisements I’ve seen, I assume their interior branding is nowhere near as nice or classy as the omnipresent B&L logo themes in the movie.
It’s sad to think he’ll try to make them pay to hide the shame he cultivates by having his influencers offer them premium avatars that beautiful people adore.
Is MySpace available?
Isn’t this what the new Dr. Strange movie is about?
When I checked some years back, they actually owned assbook dot com, but now it’s hidden behind an anonymous registration and the DNS servers for the domain are AWOL.
