The Creator of the phrase “metaverse,” Neal Stephenson, had a discussion about how to make digital world adoption more mainstream. The science fiction author and co-founder of Lamina1, a blockchain metaverse firm, believes it is difficult to create experiences that thousands of people find value in within digital worlds, which is a barrier to its adoption.
Neal Stephenson’s View on Metaverse Adoption
Neal Stephenson is credited for inventing both the concept and the term for metaverse. In his 1992 novel Snow Crash, he acknowledged that the expansion and maintenance of the metaverse relies on the quality of experiences within digital worlds. During a recent interview with the Financial Times, Stephenson said:
There won’t be any metaverse that is used by hundreds or thousands of people until it contains experiences that hundreds of thousand of people find value in.
The author also established a clear link between the metaverse and gaming, noting that “the gaming industry is the financial engine and the technological engine that’s clearly going to be the foundation of any future metaverse.” The game Doom, created by John Carmack of ID Software, is one of the many video games that started the metaverse era.
Blockchain Connecting Digital Worlds
Stephenson also believes that the metaverse and blockchain have a natural relationship that allows multiple worlds to be connected as part of a larger world. He and his wife co-founded Lamina1 with the intention of laying the groundwork for digital worlds, asserting that “it can be engineered to a point that almost matches what blockchains are capable of.”
The internal design of a metaverse can be managed centrally. However, the transfer of this data between one metaverse and another, or part of a bigger metaverse, can all be done using blockchain-based tools. He stated:
I think that to create a metaverse we need to have a state in which people can move freely between different environments… this all smacks of some kind of decentralized system for economic interactions and transactions, which reminds me of blockchain and other kinds of decentralized finance constructs.
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