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Utopia/Dystopia

TechMagic with Cathy Hackl

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The Rise of the Metaverse

The rise of the metaverse suggests we're desperate to escape from a dystopian reality. Does it represent a utopian concept where we aspire to build a new world without the problems of the old? Leia Saeedi is an award-winning futurist and world-building expert. Patrick Coleman is the assistant director of the Arthur C. Clark Center for Human Imagination at UC San Diego.

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