Many people are talking about this coming virtual world, but many others would rather stay where they are.
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The metaverse is science fiction, but a lot of people in Silicon Valley are working to make this interconnected virtual reality a, well, reality.
The bestselling novel turned film exposes paradoxes of fixing a broken system with its own tools. As we collectively meditate on the world’s problems, why not imagine better worlds?
It’s time programmers looked out old computer text adventures like Zork and Colossal Cave from the 1970s and 1980s.
In this vision of the future, everything that we currently do in the real world – going to school, going to work, socialising, leisure – is done in a vast virtual environment.
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Senior lecturer in Games and Visual Effects, University of Staffordshire
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Research Associate for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, University of York
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Associate Professor of Media and Information, Michigan State University
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