Credit: Michelangelo Buonarroti from Pexels The race to build the metaverse—a vast digital realm where virtual and physical worlds merge—is already becoming a global power struggle. According to new research from the University of Amsterdam, the United States, China, and the European Union are each charting their own course toward this "new internet," revealing starkly different political and economic visions of our digital future. The study is published i