Snow Crashing Into The Metaverse
Imaginary Worlds
The Metavers of Neil Stevenson
Veson's metavers revolved around a single location, a virtual street. Like any place in reality, the street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in reality. In surveillance is a theme ins no crash, but it's not about monetizing eyeballs. Veson thought that surveillance would come from the government. The c i a and the library of congress have merged into a single organization called the c i c which collects data by going person to person using these characters called gargoyles.
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