This 29-year-old book predicted the 'metaverse' — and some of Facebook's plans are eerily similar (via CNBCMakeIt)
It's a futuristic idea — but the term's origin actually comes from the past. Almost 30 years ago, in fact.
Nearly three decades later, that's essentially the future that Zuckerberg says he's trying to build with Meta — minus the dystopia. Companies like Microsoft, Roblox and Epic Games are also planning their own metaverses. And Stephenson now works as virtual reality start-up Magic Leap's "chief futurist," after an advisor stint at Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin.that he has "never had any communication with Zuckerberg.
The metaverse is an escape, and the novel's main character — a nearly broke computer hacker and pizza delivery driver who bears a tongue-in-cheek name, Hiro Protagonist — spends much of his time there. He accesses the metaverse by wearing goggles and "earphones," and appears within the digital world as his own customized avatar.
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