WHAT IS THE METAVERSE? Part Four
<p>So, what do we think? Are we stuck gazing at ourselves in the digital mirror forever? Or will we break through?</p>
<p>Our computers get faster, our networks smarter, and our media more realistic. What is this new phase we are entering? What happens after postmodernism? Are we becoming <em>postmaterial</em>? (ask <a href="https://twitter.com/LarryRosenthal" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">@LarryRosenthal</a>).</p>
<p>How does instant communication, instant commerce, effortless creation change us? On the regular, technology has <em>vaporized</em> distance (book stores, video stores, retail)… and with the Metaverse, we’re vaporizing space as well (cf Robert Tercek </p>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/u/287401b715e?source=post_page-----755191c2a834--------------------------------" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Robert Tercek</a></p>
<p>), creating virtual places which our virtual bodies can inhabit.</p>
<p>I hate to bring in a tired old chestnut, but it’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Media" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Marshall McLuhan</a> time. We’ve spent the last 30 years building what he foresaw. His prediction that “borderless electronic media would undermine the nation-state” is finally coming about: social media breaking mass media into enclaves and echo chambers; web3 providing technical infrastructure and economic rails that will circumvent fiat money and enable micro- communities worldwide.</p>
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