The boat, the train and the paradigm shift were all missed by Apple, according to the wiseacres.
Its introduction Monday of a new $3,500 set of virtual-reality goggles harked back unforgivably to the “metaverse,” a theme two years out of date. The metaverse was the next big thing until eclipsed by the arrival of artificial-intelligence chatbots, which in the strange dynamic of the “attention” economy enjoyed a hands-down selling point: They might kill us all.