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Neal Stephenson on The Future of the Metaverse

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I think technology is often viewed that way, right? That some people believe it's very utopian. Some people believe it'm dystopian. There's probably a huge spectrum where any given individual technology can actually be applied across the spectrum in positive and negative ways. How do you design technology so that it can be used for good? Or is it just a reality that humans will use all technologies for good and evil? I think that is pretty much a reality. And people are endlessly creative in both good and bad ways and how they use things.

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