Saved by Jonathan Simcoe and
Ready Player One
I’m thinking out loud about this, but there’s something interesting about the idea that social-media platforms now create this real distance, in part by being text-heavy. And that distance can lead you to say things or do things you’d never do in the physical world. It also lowers the bar for engagement, which means that firing off a shitty tweet i... See more
The Atlantic • Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse
What will keep several million players unable to sign off? The place must be fuller and more promising than the lives they return to, offline …. Imagine millions of users enriching the world together with their every action. Help them build a culture so beautiful it would break their hearts to lose.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
For me personally, it would have meant the preemptive realization that many of the ideas we theorized at Other Internet had little feasibility beyond the thinkpieces they were contained within, not because they were bad ideas, but because they never had the agency to be implemented.
Bryan Lehrer • What Happened to the New Internet?
Au: I think this is what Mark Zuckerberg and other would-be Metaverse builders right now are missing. It’s not the platform that matters as much as the community that is built around it. Rarely do communities have extreme loyalty to these platforms. If they don’t feel they’re being engaged with on a fair level, they take their friends and they get ... See more