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"Snow Crashing Into The Metaverse" from Imaginary Worlds

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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Is the Metaverse a Democratizing Experience?

Genevieve Bell has also been thinking about the ethical problems in building immersive worlds like the metaverse. She says there's an enormous amount of things in the background that are made invisible. The other thing that all of these worlds teach us is that the technology is not emancipatory per se, she adds.

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