Welcome to Hashtag Trending, the Weekend Edition with your host Jim Appreciate.

We took the strategy from the book Snowcrash, the place the time period metaverse was initially utilized. In that e book, there had been many countries or metropolis states just about every with their individual procedures. They experienced there very own citizenship and policies. A lot of of them ended up operate by corporations or eccentric loaded people today who have been the “dictators” who dominated people worlds. Audio familiar?

You could journey involving them but you did so at some danger. They were being tribal and normally taken care of immigrants and travellers with suspicion and in some cases with hostility.

The concept in the guide was so close to what we observed rising in the metaverse as it was unfolding IRL (in genuine existence).  We saw a competitive established of contenders all hoping to create a stake in the new metaverse(s).  So I believed, what if I explained the emerging metaverse as if it was a entire world and we could map out the the several wannabe town states.

The end result was