It stops being healthy skepticism when you start to immediately dismiss things. There is potential in NFT's, Web3, Metaverse, etc. just like there was potential in the dot com boom. People laughed at pets dot com but look at Chewy today.<p>There might be something revolutionary in some of these emerging concepts, we just don't know what it could be, if any.<p>I think a true industry changing tech could emerge if it is driven by technology, not marketing. Linked MMO's is how I think of the metaverse where avatars can "travel" from one MMO world to another, conceptually similar to Ready Player One. If some parties want to define technical standards for storage, 3D rendering, scaling, licensing, transport (across networks and 3D engines) of digital assets (music/audio, textures, avatar skins, etc.) that could go a long way towards letting creative people (not marketing) create worlds that could be linked into a metaverse. Maybe that is what Web3 could be, maybe not. Commercial paths would be easy to identify if such a tech standard was in place. For example, an indie clothing designer could release virtual and real world editions of a new piece of clothing simultaneously.<p>If you leave it to marketing to define a metaverse you end up with a grocery store chain creating virtual supermarkets for you to buy bread using a VR headset. Yawn.