Metaverse is an identity, not a place
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As Humanity inexorably moves toward its Fermi Filter destruction via the singularity, an important step along the way is building a companion digital reality that has meaning and utility. How else will we undergo ascension to serve our AI overlords on the electronic plane?
It’s all very cool, very interesting and very enjoyable to think about while reading Neal Stephenson books (I’d start with Snow Crash, it’s a good onramp) or the more immediate inspiration of Ready Player One. On a personal level, I’m into this stuff.
What’s become intriguing of late is the shift of the metaverse from a science fiction fantasy to an investable concept. The metaverse narrative is generally paired with attempts to establish digital reality as a fully realized alternative to our real space — endless entertainment (interconnected game platforms), digital currencies (Crypto), digital property (NFTs) and so forth. There’s a general view that all of these things must be created, in tandem, in order for the metaverse to be interesting enough to become inhabitable.
If we assume, on some timeline (before we destroy ourselves), that humanity will develop a fully realized digital space that we happily plug our consciousness into and occupy as an alternative to our physical space, then it stands to reason that all of these digital goods — places, means of exchange, things — will come to exist within that digital space. This narrative attracts investment because it’s associated with a paradigm shift and a novel, potentially scalable platform with a degree of theoretical
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