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Science fiction pioneer Neal Stephenson on the metaverse, the movies and why he still believes in blockchain

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The Metaverse Is Not the Real World

Gibson: Up until recently it's been impossible technically to make the stuff that I've written into something visual or a game and I didn't want to do a half-assed version. "I would hate to have seen what a 1997 version of the metaverse looked like," he says. Gibson has worked for Jeff Bezos, who is one of the world's richest people.

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