This is a dramatic and historic democratization of speech. And like any democratizing force, it challenges existing power structures. Political and cultural elites are confronting a raucous online conversation that they can’t control, and many are understandably anxious about it.
Thus my definition: the Metaverse is the set of experiences that are completely online, and thus defined by their malleability and scalability, which is to say that the Metaverse is already here. Sure, today’s experience is largely denominated by text and 2D, but video is already a major medium, first in the form of entertainment and now a vital to... See more
AI’s impact on subjective experience: “amazing to me how little impact AI is going to turn out to have on our day to day experience of life”
insight from Sam Altman bfast with JB
The affordances of different types of online space change how information is produced, circulated, and remembered across platforms. What happens when platforms enable the archival of information? What happens when they encourage collective experiences versus personal, inward-facing ones?
Recently gave a talk about how AirPods will be remembered as our first taste of transhumanism
Slides below, specifically getting into:
-why audio is a massive platform shift
-Apple & Spotify's strategies
-AR + 'artisanal internet'
-where startups fit in
Major new mediums change the structure of discourse. Books demand that you sit still and pay attention for long periods. Television’s demands on you are much different.