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"Snow Crashing Into The Metaverse" from Imaginary Worlds

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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Cautionary Tales - Imaginary Worlds After the Break

Neil Stevenson's Snow Crash is a satire of the post-ragan political economy. Kevin Bankston works at meta as their director of AI policy focusing on the metaverse. Malinsky: I enjoy living in a world with technology like Google Earth or Siri. So if the metaverse resembles what Stevenson imagined, what could go wrong? That's after the break.

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