A map of the metaverse: Hashtag Trending Weekend Edition

Welcome to Hashtag Trending, the Weekend Version with your host Jim Love.

We took the notion from the book Snowcrash, where by the time period metaverse was very first utilised. In that guide, there were a number of nations or city states every single with their possess guidelines. They experienced there possess citizenship and procedures. Quite a few of them were being operate by firms or eccentric rich folks who were the “dictators” who dominated these worlds. Sound acquainted?

You could travel in between them but you did so at some threat. They were tribal and normally addressed immigrants and travellers with suspicion and often with hostility.

The thought in the ebook was so close to what we observed emerging in the metaverse as it was unfolding IRL (in actual lifetime).  We saw a aggressive set of contenders all making an attempt to create a stake in the new metaverse(s).  So I believed, what if I explained the emerging metaverse as if it was a earth and we could map out the the a variety of wannabe town states.

The final result was this episode.  I hope you will obtain it intriguing.  It may perhaps help make conceptual  sense of some of the points that are emerging in this article and now.

1 very last notice.  There are a selection of content articles emerging now that talk about how the metaverse is failing, how Zuckerberg is shedding hundreds of billions or how the metaverse has become what sporting activities icon Yogi Berra mentioned about dining places in New York. “Nobody goes there for the reason that it’s also crowded.”

We preferred to skirt equally the posture of the legitimate believer and the cynic. In our viewpoint, the metaverse is inevitable. What variety it normally takes or in our parlance, what state or alliance of nations around the world earn is not.

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