Review: Christian Caryl on Colin Thubron, Vibrant Fatalist

One day soon, we won’t need to travel anywhere—or so people like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg would like us to think. In announcing his company’s next iteration as “Meta,” he recently proclaimed a new age of virtual togetherness, under his sponsorship, in the “metaverse.” Apparently I am not a member of his target audience. The prospect of virtually tra…