Military Metaverse

Nostradamus predicted Automated Content in 1522

I was about to fill a domain, which I parked for a long time, with content, because I am not happy to sell the generic term Military Metaverse to some domain-grabbers.

I was one of the participants in this project running since 2012. The last manager of the project, Dr. Barbara Truman, sadly died in 2021 and the project went off the horizon. In honour of her, the Barbara Truman Planetarium was built in Opensimulator. The University of Central Florida (UCF) established The Barbara Truman Award for Excellence in Blended Teaching.

The domain stayed with me. Time now to do something with it, right?

I first googled the term “Military Metaverse” to get up-to-date. One of the first hits was an article on MEDIUM. I was shocked. It was a copy of what systems like ChatGPT produce when the machine has no clue. Not that I blame the author, not that I blame the machine. I just don't know whom to blame. Maybe Nostradamus? He predicted in 1522 the effects of the Internet. I plan to write on these documents, found last year. They are authentic. Nostradamus wrote them at the age of 19, years before he became famous.

And when the new millennium is young, they will create their own worlds and you will be caught in their nets!” — Translated with DeepL

He also predicted spam and automated content:

One word will lead to another — and in the end a storm of faeces will…