This year a new word exploded into the main stream, meta verse. Companies like facebook are spending billions to build virtual worlds where people can live on line and use services as avatars. And all this got our european technology correspondent, madamita mergia, thinking about where this word comes from. So i found out that the word meta vers was actually coined in snow crash, a science fiction novel by neil stevenson from back in 19 92.
US financial conditions are near the most accommodative on record even as the Federal Reserve has begun stepping up its exit from coronavirus crisis-era stimulus measures, and soaring US stock markets are masking a strong tide that is pulling down the share prices of hundreds of companies, and the FT’s European technology correspondent, Madhumita Murgia, discusses science fiction’s influence on technology and social attitudes towards technology, particularly artificial intelligence.
US financial conditions remain easy even as Fed pulls back on stimulus
The clips from the Metaverse story were from the 1984 movie The Terminator, the 1968 movie called 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the Japanese cartoon Astro Boy.
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