Metaverse visionary Neal Stephenson is building a blockchain to uplift creators
“I worry about things that are not directly related to blockchain and the Metaverse. I worry about climate change and about social fragmentation.” Last month marked the 30th anniversary of the publication of Neal Stephenson’s science fiction novel Snow Crash. With its dystopian vision, rollicking prose and futuristic renderings of everything from social media networks to virtual assistants and even alternative currencies — Bitcoin wasn’t to launch for another 17 years — the work soon achieved iconic stature in the tech world. Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Jack Dorsey were admirers, while....
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At LAMINA1, Neal Stephenson will focus on “helping get artists and other value creators paid properly for their work, helping the environment [...] and seeing a truly open Metaverse get built” noted co-founder Peter Vessenes. Neal Stephenson, the author who coined the term “Metaverse” 30 years ago is launching a Metaverse-focused blockchain project called LAMINA1. He has also revised his vision for the Metaverse stating the experience is likely to be geared more toward flat 2D screens and rather than virtual reality or augmented reality tech such as headsets and lenses, as in the model....
It is the integration of nonfungible tokens into the Metaverse that has initiated the transformation of our interactions in virtual worlds. Blockchain is a core technology that differentiates itself from other technologies by having solved the double expense with the emergence of the Bitcoin blockchain in 2008. Nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, were driven by blockchain technology which brought scarcity and interoperability to nonfungible tokens. But, what do blockchain technology and NFTs have to do with Metaverse? Why are large companies experimenting with NFTs in Metaverse?The MetaverseThe....
Think of how essential the internet is to everyday life now — that’s what the Metaverse could become in a lot less time than the internet did. Neal Stephenson, a popular sci-fi writer coined the phrase “metaverse” in his first best-selling and breakthrough 1992 novel, Snow Crash. Now that concept is becoming a reality, and what’s more, you can invest in the metaverses. In Ready Player One, The OASIS is another example of an advanced virtual reality. Numerous other sci-fi authors, such as Ian M Banks, have created and used similar concepts within their novels.Back in September, Facebook CEO....
People can have a better knowledge of the Metaverse and Web3 by learning how to utilize Minecraft. What is the Metaverse?The Metaverse is a term coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash to describe a future virtual reality-based online world. Some have gone as far as pronouncing Stephenson’s novel a prediction of the future.Before you agree that it’s some mystical peek into the future and invoke the rules of time travel, let’s first investigate what the Metaverse is through the lens of something much more accessible: Minecraft. But, more on this later.Unlike....
The world’s largest social network, Facebook, has changed its name to Meta, short for metaverse. Naturally, this move is shining a spotlight on the metaverse industry, or the field of virtual worlds. While this concept has more recently become a viral phenomenon, it’s not a new idea at all. The metaverse began as a science-fiction concept that was first introduced in the 1990s by sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson in his famous book, Snow Crash. Stephenson imagined networks of virtual worlds where people could experience all the benefits of modern technology—without the hassles of....