TECHNOCULT isn't always about looking forward and throwing yourself to the technological unknown of improving yourself by biomechanical augmentations and altering your consciousness with the assistance of an AI.
There is a great deal to be gained from the unfathomable amount of data in the biosphere that has existed for eons. The metaverse isn't some grand invention of humankind. Plants have had intricate networks in place since way before the human could even form an intelligible thought. Trees convey information from one end of the forest to the other as a form of social network and there is a symbiotic exchange of energy happening on a daily basis between multiple different species of or...