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"Snow Crashing Into The Metaverse" from Imaginary Worlds
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Imaginary Worlds
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced what he calls the metaverse, a platform where users will interact in virtual and augmented realities. This comes close to how the metaverse was first described in a 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash that coined the term. Critics have been asking if tech moguls should be using a 30 year old cyberpunk novel as a design spec.
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