Metaverse: Real questions about virtual future

Low investments in tech weigh India down, leaving a shortage of top talent

Just before Christmas, fabled Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen blocked Jack Dorsey on Twitter. Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, had been insinuating that the so-called Web 3.0, which is perceived to be the next stage of the internet, will be dominated by big venture capitalists, and end up being just “a centralised entity with a different label”.

Dorsey’s views appear to be aligned with those of Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, but at variance with many other big names in the world of technology, such as Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, whose parent company is now