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"Snow Crashing Into The Metaverse" from Imaginary Worlds
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Imaginary Worlds Podcast
In a tech revolution, some people promise wonderful things and others warn of terrible things. One thing I learned from Snow Crash is that if we're going to create a new world in a virtual space, it's going to have the same problems as the real world. It doesn't matter if our avatars are photorealistic holograms, or pixelated icons, or fantastical creatures. There's still us, and we can never escape ourselves. That was Imaginary Worlds on cautionary tales.
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