Matthew Ball is the CEO of Epyllion, which makes angel investments, provides advisory services, and produces television, films, and video games.

He’s also a Venture Partner at Makers Fund, Senior Advisor to KKR, Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, and sits on the board of numerous start-ups.

Matthew is one of the sharpest and most original thinkers on the future of media and the Internet (i.e. The Metaverse). The fully revised and updated edition of his bestselling book "The Metaverse: Building the Spatial Internet" releases next week.

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Show Notes:

Into The Metaverse
AI and The Metaverse
‘AI Can Bend the Laws of Physics’
Human Engineering and the Human Brain
Screens and Education
The Reflexivity of AI Doomerism
The Salvation of the ‘TV Species’
From Passive Media to Active Media
‘What’s An Appropriate Simulation?’
‘We Don’t Outlaw Fire, We Train Firemen’
Applying the Precautionary Principle
Media and the Metaverse: Three Stages of Competition
The Enduring Value of Taste
Hardware and AI: The Vergence-Accommodation Conflict
The Emperor of the Metaverse
MORE!

Books Mentioned:

The Metaverse: Building the Spatial Internet; by Matthew Ball
The Streaming Book; by Matthew Ball
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous; by Joseph Henrich

HAP 24 - Professionally Speaking - The Reaction Against Ethnophilosophy

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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