The most important conversation to be had about what facebook is trying to do is the tremendous danger of its being an ad based, surveillance based, behavior targeting business. In a metavers environment where you're walking around fully, you know, embedded in three d, but you don't know where the ads are. Think how good a is are going to get at modifying the room you're in to sell you something in a way tat you don't notice. That's the first reason. The second thing, i don't knaw whit, whether this is even more serious, but it's equally dreadful.
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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