Silicon Valley is racing to build the next version of the internet. Fortnite might get there first

COVID-19 could shape the Metaverse. "Fortnite is a game," Tim Sweeney, the CEO tweeted in December 2019. "But ask that question again in 12 months." In the race to build the next version of the internet, it looks like Fortnite may be outwitting some of the brightest minds in Silicon Valley. Writing in The Washington Post, Gene Park reports.