Il metaverso può davvero promuovere la transizione ecologica e ridurre l’ineguaglianza sociale? Analisi e previsioni di un simulacro in via di costruzione

Technology is a semantically complex word, because it can refer to any tools created to transfer experiences and capabilities, similar to those of humans, to machines. The transition to an increasingly technological world, which began with the industrial revolution, concretized with the rise of the internet until the latest advances in artificial intelligence, has a double goal: on the one hand accelerate technological progress and on the other create new infrastructures in which people will be able to liveand interact virtually in the near future. This is not a dystopian scenario; it is called the metaverse. The purpose of the metaverse is to role in transitioning to a sustainable environment using a combination of various technological elements designed to accelerate the transmission of human life and experience into virtual environments. For this reason, the metaverse seems to be the ideal "space" to promote a sustainable and socially inclusive approach, and although it is still in an experimental phase for now, it is bound to face many challenges in the immediate future, and the aim of this paper is to reflect and advance some of these issues.