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San Junipero was the fourth episode in the third series of Black Mirror. It dealt with a simulated reality where the deceased can live and the elderly can visit, all inhabiting their younger selves’ bodies in a time of their choice. It is in fact a true *Second Life* in all senses of the term. We are given the choice to either die or live on within the metaverse. The world’s first artificial general intelligence is born from the metaverse**The next stage will be brain-computer interfaces that allow us to inhabit worlds that exist only inside computers.