I noticed that too, very interesting how it's not mentioned at all. Maybe Mark is getting a clue his little bet is a failure and a joke.

And it was mentioned only as one item among others: “We do this with AI to help you creatively express yourself and discover new content, with the metaverse to deliver a realistic sense of presence, with new media formats to …” and “Our leading work building the metaverse and shaping the next generation of computing platforms ….”

The message is loud and clear "As I’ve talked about efficiency this year, I’ve said that part of our work will involve removing jobs". & no surprise, "future" has only mentioned 4 times

Mr Zuckerberg, what is the future of social connection?

Yeah, I noticed this. I wonder if it's next on the chopping block.

Thing is, I don't think that people trust FB/"meta" with the concept. Most of the feedback I've heard from people IRL has been to the effect of, "it could be cool, but not if Facebook is behind it."

How many billion per mention did that cost?

Coincidentally that's also the number of times it was used today, and the number of people with any interest in it !

Reminds me of when Bill Gates wrote a book on the "Information Superhighway" (envisioned to be a MS-controlled walled garden like AOL) and then put out a revised edition a year later that replaced the term with "Internet". They still had their walled garden with Windows + IE for several years though.

you mean like github?