Mark Zuckerberg predicts a super dystopian future that has everybody wearing the same thing
The Meta CEO believes that the future of tech will also double up as a fashion statement
Tech mogul Mark Zuckerberg has predicted a very dystopian future where everybody is wearing the exact same thing.
The Meta CEO has made some interesting predictions about the way we’ll use technology in the years to come, and he reckons we’ll all be wearing it on our faces.
When he spoke to fellow giant in the industry, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang, at a conference earlier this week, Zuckerberg shared his thoughts on the future of tech.
Mark Zuckerberg has predictions about the future of tech (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
“So I kind of think, based on what we’re seeing now with the Ray-Ban Metas, I would guess that display-less AI glasses at like the $300 point are going to be a really big product that, like tens of millions of people, or hundreds of millions of people eventually are going to have, and you’re going to have super interactive AI that you’re talking to.”
Zuckerberg’s company Meta launched their own smart glasses in 2021, which was a collaboration with Ray-Bans and earlier this year it announced that AI would be integrated into the glasses.
The Meta CEO envisions a dystopian future for tech (Qi Yang/Getty)
The Facebook co-founder went on to say: “The goal there has been, okay, let’s constrain the form factor to just something that looks great and within that, let’s put in as much technology as we can — understanding that we’re not going to get to the kind of ideal of what we want to fit into it technically, but at the end, it’ll be like great looking glasses.”
The idea is that chips built into the glasses will enable them to have a holographic display.
The Meta smart glasses are a collaboration with Ray-Bans (Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
They also have camera sensors so that users can take photos, videos, and even livestream on Instagram or take video calls on WhatsApp.
There are other companies working on similar products and Google has been trying out different models of these smart glasses since 2013.
A firm called Snap Inc. also made Spectacles, which are glasses with augmented reality enabled.
So, Zuckerberg might be onto something – the future of tech could be built into the glasses we wear.
You only have to look at the recent emergence of China’s DeepSeek AI sending shockwaves through the American tech industry to see artificial intelligence will be the battleground that future wars are fought on.
While there are fears that AI will lead to a loss of jobs or even eradicate the entire human race as it gains sentience, that hasn’t stopped the tech giants from trying to get in on the ground floor.
Whether it’s Meta, OpenAI, or Tesla it seems everyone wants a slice of the AI pie, with some willing to do anything to ensure they get the biggest.
Now, Meta overlord Mark Zuckerberg has given his chilling prediction of where things are heading. Speaking during leaked meeting audio (shared via Business Insider), Zuckerberg warned staff to ‘buckle up’ for what’s described as an ‘intense’ year at Meta.
Mark Zuckerberg is looking ahead to Meta’s AI future (JULIA DEMAREE NIKHINSON / Contributor / Getty)
During a lengthy opening monologue, Zuckerberg suggested that Meta will be betting big on AI in 2025. Notably, Meta’s ‘highly intelligent and personalized’ digital assistant hopes to reach one billion users by the end of the year. This aligns with Meta’s recent push to flood its platforms with AI-controlled accounts.
Referring to business as sometimes being a marathon and sometimes a sprint, Zuckerberg reiterated that 2025 will fall into the ‘sprint’ category: “I think whoever gets there first is going to have a long-term, durable advantage towards building one of the most important products in history.”
As for the looming idea that AI overtaking will lead to a loss of jobs, Zuckerberg admitted it’s ‘hard to know’. Addressing the idea of robots taking over from humans, he added: “The nature of what engineering is in the future will be different than it is today.”
His critics are sure to raise the fact that he’s already teased a slew of job cuts and their potential replacement by AI software.
Although Zuckerberg dodged the $25 million elephant in the room where Meta has agreed to pay President Donald Trump for suspending his Facebook account, he claims he has to be careful what he says. Discussing spies within Meta, he claimed: “Everything I say leaks. And it sucks, right?”
2025 looks like a big year for Meta’s AI rollout (NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty)
Speaking of the POTUS, Zuckerberg sees this year as one for ‘resetting’ its relationship with the government: “After the last several years, we now have an opportunity to have a productive partnership with the United States government, and we’re going to take that.”
“I think it’s the right thing to do because there are several areas, even if we don’t agree on everything, where we have common cause for things that are going to make it so that we can serve our community better, and we can advance the interests of our country together.”
There have also been worries about Meta removing its third-party fact-checkers and heading toward a community note system similar to X. Even though Zuckerberg has promised it won’t compromise Meta’s ‘principles or values’, there are obvious skeptics.
Some have already vowed to delete their accounts due to recent guideline changes, and while concerns about the tech industry’s growing ties to President Trump continue to grow, it doesn’t sound like Zuckerberg is veering from the path toward this AI future.
Mark Zuckerberg has expressed his commitment to one particular type of tech despite a relative lack of growth and company losses of $60,000,000,000 across just five years, but it could all end up working out in the end if predictions play out correctly.
Virtual reality has been one of tech‘s hottest topics for nearly two decades now, and while for a large part of its lifespan it has remained within the confines of gaming, recent years have shown its potential to expand into wider life.
Meta’s $2,000,000,000 acquisition of Oculus VR in 2014 seemed like a bold move to many at the time, but the years since have shown that it was just the start of many big tech moves into the space, with names like Apple, Google, and more staking their own claim.
While there remains a lot of optimism, and yearly projections indicate that there is a bright future ahead for VR, strong investment from Meta and Zuckerberg is yet to see any real wins and has lost them around $60,000,000,000 in the past five years alone – 30 times what they initially paid for Oculus over a decade ago.
Mark Zuckerberg’s investment in VR with the Meta Quest and more have lost the company $60 billion in the last five years (Amy Osborne/AFP via Getty Images)
As reported by MSN, consumer demand isn’t yet coming close to the investment in virtual reality technology despite continual pushes into ‘real world’ use with augmented realty advancements.
Significant to the disparity between predictions and actual performance is the overestimation of the metaverse, which Mark Zuckerberg and Meta put significant weight behind following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reports suggest that the company has lost around $49 billion from investments into the digital world, with projections that people would go to work, shop, and even live in the metaverse not exactly playing out as planned.
Yet Zuckerberg isn’t giving up yet, and remains undeterred by the significant losses suffered so far. He has made it clear that he expects to see continued losses in this field, yet he is committed to what many see as a money sink at this point in time.
What likely keeps his focus locked however is the opportunity to be the market leader in a potential new global technology. He believes VR to be the next smartphone that you will either use alongside or even instead of your iPhone, Google Pixel, or Samsung device, and that would certainly be a powerful position to be in.
The Meta Orion could perhaps be the bridge many consumers need into VR (Julie Jammot/AFP via Getty Images)
If this does work out then it would certainly make up for all of the losses incurred so far, and additional projects like the Bart Simpson-esque Orion glasses – which take advantage of quickly advancing AI technology too – could be the bridge for many consumers.
It still remains a challenging proposition to have many strap a computer to their face for multiple hours a day though, and Apple’s seeming failure to break the market with the $3,500 Vision Pro doesn’t exactly give confidence that the world is ready for VR quite yet.
Leaked meeting audio reveals that Mark Zuckerberg plans to lay off more employees in 2025, as he gears up for technological advancements that should worry even software engineers.
Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are certainly no stranger to losing money, as the past half a decade has seen the company tank upwards of $60,000,000,000 with clear messaging that losses are likely to continue.
Therefore, it might come as a surprise to some that leaked audio reveals plans for Mark Zuckerberg to lay off employees in 2025, as it seemingly goes against the willingness to continually leak funds.
However, it appears as if it’s not exactly coming from a cost-cutting perspective, as a focus on technological advancements in the field of artificial intelligence could spell danger for even those writing the software to develop it.
As reported by Business Insider, Zuckerberg has outlined plans to bring on more AI agents into the Meta ecosystem, potentially even ones that can write software for the company.
Leaked audio outlines Mark Zuckerberg’s plans to replace workers with AI (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
On the subject of job losses, he indicated that it was “hard to know” what would happen, and that job losses could come in line with the implementation of new tech.
“The nature of what engineering is in the future will be different than it is today,” Zuckerberg argued, while remarking that in balance there could be an increased demand for those able to ‘harness’ the power of AI.
However, many have expressed their own fears that software engineers developing AI are writing their own death sentence, speculating that they’re essentially training technology to make themselves redundant down the line if Zuckerberg’s words are to be believed.
This is far from the first time that people have expressed fears surrounding AI and the world of employment too, as countless theories have circulated around what jobs remain most ‘at risk’ of redundancy surrounding AI.
An AI workforce could be the future of big tech companies, with AI even writing itself (Getty Stock)
The godfather of AI himself has even alluded to this, indicating that the technology will be used to dramatically increase the wealth gap between the general population and the richest individuals, laying a ‘fertile ground for fascism’ in the near future.
Others on social media have argued that these statements from Zuckerberg are instead just an ‘excuse’ to lay staff off and boost AI value at the same time, and that these measures aren’t likely to happen exactly as they’re laid out.
“Tech CEO touts AI jobs to boost stock price,” argues one user, whereas another declares that “Zuck wanted to do layoff anyway to make the line go up and this is a nice convenient excuse.”
There’s likely truth in all areas of the argument, but it indicates the tension that AI is creating within a job market that is looking more fragile as technology rapidly advances.
Every CEO has their go-to interview technique, and Meta mogul Mark Zuckerberg is no different.
Landing a job sounds easier than it is, and in an ever-changing market with artificial intelligence well in our lives for good, it’s harder than ever. Everyone has their own techniques when it comes to interviewing potential staff, with some interviewers having their own ‘tests’ to find the perfect candidate. Everyone has their dream job, and for some, that might be working for Mark Zuckerberg.
The Facebook co-founder has turned his business acumen into a $198.7 billion fortune, making him the fourth richest man in the world behind Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and Jeff Bezos. But what does it take to impress the Zuck?
Could you impress Mark Zuckerberg in an interview? (Anna Moneymaker / Staff / Getty)
If you want to be one of the 70,000 people currently employed by Meta, Zuckerberg has explained his interview techniques (via the Independent): “I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person.”
He added: “It’s a pretty good test.”
This isn’t the first time Zuckerberg has discussed his supposedly foolproof test, saying similar during a 2018 interview with the Recode Decode podcast: “If the tables were turned and you were looking for a job, would you be comfortable working for this person then you’re doing something expedient, but you’re not doing as well as you can.”
Zuckerberg said that his interview test is the ‘single most important thing’ when it comes to hiring someone, with him also saying that critical thinking is important.
The business overlord famously hired tech legend Sheryl Sandberg as Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, seeing her as a mentor and saying she’s helped make Facebook a ‘healthy business.’
His other advice for recruiting the perfect team is to keep it small: “The most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible.
Zuckerberg has a foolproof way to get his perfect hire (CFOTO / Contributor / Getty)
“[Facebook] serves more than a billion people around the world but our team has fewer than 10,000 people. It’s only possible because of modern technology. Big companies get bloated.”
Facebook sounds like a pretty fun place to work, with tech entrepreneur Sophie Novati telling Fortune: “The energy was buzzing at early Facebook. There were so many people just trying to build and ship cool stuff.
She says that Zuckerberg had some great advice for making money, explaining: “His response to me was, if you can figure out a way to capture people’s valuable attention, you can always figure out how to turn that into money later.
“What he was really focused on building is figuring out how to deliver value to people. Later on, you can always turn that value into dollars.”
Unfortunately for Facebook, it’s long dropped out Glassdoor’s annual Top 10 companies to work for. Still, whatever Zuckerberg is doing, it’s working. His Midas touch has made him a not-so-small fortune, and if you get a job working for him, know you must be pretty impressive because he’d likely work for you as well.
