Neal Stephenson, apparently the first to coin the term “metaverse,” has weighed in on the future of virtual world adoption. The science fiction writer and co-founder of Lamina1, a blockchain metaverse company, believes that creating experiences that millions of people find worth having in virtual worlds is hard enough, hindering the technology adoption process. .
Neal Stephenson on the future of metaverse adoption
Neal Stephenson, who is believed to be the originator of the general concept and the term “metaverse” recently popularized by Meta, believes that widespread adoption of this technology could be a long way off. The writer, who coined the term as part of his novel Snow Crash, published in 1992, stated that the growth of the metaverse will depend on the quality of the experiences offered in the virtual world.
As part of an interview offered to the financial timesStephenson stated:
There won’t be a metaverse that is used by millions of people until it contains experiences that millions of people find worth having, and creating those experiences is hard enough.
The author, who has established a clear relationship between the metaverse and gaming technology, explained that “the gaming industry is the economic engine and the technological engine that is obviously going to be the foundation of any future metaverse,” citing Doom, the game created by John Carmack of ID Software, as one of the games that started the metaverse era.
Blockchain interconnecting virtual worlds
Stephenson also explained that blockchain and the metaverse have a natural relationship, allowing multiple worlds to interconnect as part of a larger world. The writer says that part of the reason behind the creation of sheet1the company he co-founded, was going to lay a foundational layer for creating digital worlds that are “engineered to a degree that pretty much matches what blockchains are capable of.”
The internal design of a metaverse can be done centrally, but the movement of this data from one metaverse to another, part of a larger metaverse, can be done using blockchain-based tools. He declared:
I think to build a metaverse, we’re going to have a situation where people move freely from one environment to another… all of that smacks of some kind of decentralized network of financial interactions and transactions that reminds me of blockchain and other kinds of decentralized finance constructs.
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