
057: Edward Slingerland on getting drunk & the evolutionary history of alcohol
A LOAD OF BS ON SPORT
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Is There a Metaverse?
There's an extension of the technology debate, which is thinking about what people refer to as the metaverse. Do you like these kind of immersive alternative realities? If you like the 3D version of the internet virtual reality or commented reality, and I think if predictions about the metaverse are true, in decades to come, we won't be conversing at the pub, but you know, sort of socializing in part by avatar in alternative realities. So it is possible. It's just, it's not the same thing. Humans need to be physically together. We're using all sorts of all factory cues when we're interacting socially with people.
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