Technology is at this adolescent moment right where, like, as technologists, nobody took us seriously in the nineties. And now that we've made it, what's going to happen next? Right? So there's this thing, i think, that's happening in technology. We need to take responsibility for the impact that these systems have. You know, elan musk has 80 million followers, and if he sends a message out, it's going to be read within a few minutes by hundreds of thousands of people. And then ultimately by millions of millions. There is absolutely no hiding and saying, this is a smaller space or something. Nonsense. It is as big as all
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life, to talk about why he has returned as an advisor and investing the virtual world years after having left (4:30), how many people are on Second Life today (10:05), the $650m Second Life economy (12:05), digital goods millionaires (14:20), the dangers of an ad-driven model (16:40), how you govern a metaverse with 1 billion people (24:40), moderating (28:30), the future of the metaverse (36:00), whether Mark Zuckerberg can pull it off (40:40), and the concept of race in virtual worlds (43:30).
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