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The Metaverse Is a New Word for an Old Idea
- - In the first six months of 2022, the word metaverse appeared in regulatory filings more than 1,100 times. The previous year saw 260 mentions. The preceding two decades? Fewer than a dozen in total.- The metaverse, a 30-year-old term but nearly century-old idea, is forming around us. Every few decades, a platform shift occurs—such as that from mai... See more
from The Metaverse Will Reshape Our Lives. Let's Make Sure It's for the Better by Matthew Ball
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- With technology increasing, we’ll move closer and closer to Neal Stephenson’s Metaverse in Snow Crash, where we live as much online as offline and conduct ourselves according to the online laws and customs, working in the cybereconomy.
from The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State by James Dale Davidson
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