Tomorrow, April 9, will mark the one-month anniversary of the Meta-Averse podcast. Big thanks to everyone who’s listened, subscribed, or told a friend they might want to check the show out.
The goal of the show — and now the newsletter — is to explore the future of the Internet, arguably the most useful technology humans have invented since electricity. Whether ideas like “the metaverse” and “Web3” are here to stay or turn out to be flashes in the pan, they’re the names technologists, business leaders, and other folks are using right now to describe the evolution of the Internet from where it is today to where it’s headed tomorrow.
“Exploring the future of the Internet” is a big mission statement. At some point we may have to narrow that down a bit. But for now it opens the door to a lot of great conversations with people working on a lot of interesting things that are shaping our future — things that are all interconnected via technology, community, and human beings’ innate desire to see what else might be possible in our lifetimes.
Here’s a look back at the first month of Meta-Averse, loosely organized by topic area:
Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality / Extended Reality
episode 1: The Mindful Metaverse ft Nanea Reeves
episode 7: A Gym for Your Mind ft Amir Bozorgzadeh
Community Building and Tokenization (NFTs) in Web3
episode 3: The Future of Play ft Charles Du
episode 4: Brands, Customer Loyalty, and NFTs ft Adam Cheung and Pip McQuarrie
Digital Empathy and Human Well-Being in The Metaverse
Cybersecurity, Cryptocurrency, and Privacy in Web3 and The Metaverse
Here’s a link to the show library on Apple Podcasts if you’d rather listen there:
Some of these episodes could be filed under multiple categories, of course. For example, episode 2 with Ala and Jake from Bittensor, could rightly fall under both Community Building and Human Well-Being. As we publish more episodes, this is likely to keep happening, and we’re working on some ideas for organizing the episode library with tags and a visual map of some sort to make cross-referencing a bit easier.
But for now it seemed worth marking the one month birthday of Meta-Averse with an archive page, however crudely organized, to make diving into the archives a little easier. Feel free to share this page as a starting point for anyone new to the show.
Enjoy, and thanks again for coming along on this ride into the future …