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Metaverse skeptics today: "I'm not going to wear AR glasses and live online, that's stupid."  The same skeptics, 10 years ago: "I'm not going to use a smartphone or use Google, that's stupid."  Metaverse productivity boost will be undeniable. Plus, it's a dopamine hit.

Traditionally, tech gets "consumerized" when people stop talking about the tech. Nobody says "hey you should use Instagram b/c it's on Python".  Before NFTs, we explained crypto by talking about Byzantine consensus.  NFTs abstract that away. It's crypto's consumer moment.

The Metaverse is the Internet, w/ two differences:1 - visualization layer will be better. Today it's Google Meets, tomorrow it's augmented reality.2 - Digital objects will be composable and not stored in private databases behind APIs and T&C's.

Crypto & NFT architecture is at risk of centralization from:- myopic stakeholders (gov't, big tech)- terrifyingly bad UI for mass self-custody (scam vulnerability)

Wallets holding NFTs are public and composable databases.  Anyone can do an airdrop to Punks holders, if they so wish to target that consumer segment.  Wallets are a marketer's dream email inbox. But the UI is still early and primitive - think about all your spam airdrops.

Fashion house Dolce & Gabanna  doesn't throw parties at Ethereum conferences. They don't throw parties at Cisco's Wireless Networking conferences.  But, they held a party at NFT NYC.  Why? Because NFTs are consumer products, for anything and everything.

NFTs are transportation tech for societal intangibles, of which corporate balance sheets have $63 trillion.-"Just do it"-"Make America Great Again"-"We the People..."These myths and memes are unbelievable