Both of the technology innovations I cited yesterday — indoor plumbing and the ability to text from anywhere at any time — were examples of ways that a change in technology allowed us to change our relationship to our bodies. We can look at many technologies through this same lens.
Books, for example, allowed people to convey their thoughts long after the original creator of the thought is dead and buried. Movies extended that power theatrical performance.
Consider air conditioning, radio, TV, automobiles, smart phones, the Web. Technology innovations tend to reconfigure the relationship between our minds and our bodies. And each technology does this in its own way.
So if you want to understand the significance of what people have been calling the “Metaverse”, it might be useful to think about
how it might reconfigure the relationship between our minds and our bodies.