video: https://youtu.be/dlbgPKIox78
1: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/poll-nearly-two-thirds-americans-say-social-media-platforms-are-n1266773
2: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/
3: https://omr.com/en/metaverse-snow-crash/
4: https://www.hpcwire.com/2008/08/28/what_is_the_metaverse_and_should_hpc_care/
5: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/16peoplewe.html
6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2kG0J9sKKg
7: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1454530724065804291
8: https://people.well.com/user/bbear/vrml.html
9: https://web.archive.org/web/20121003092729/http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-what-its-like-and-what-im-doing-2/
10: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/what-is-metaverse
11: https://www.digitalspace.com/avatars/aworld.html
12: https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2013/04/second-life-is-a-killer-app-for-oculus-rift/
13: https://superjumpmagazine.com/how-the-virtual-world-second-life-is-a-showcase-of-the-metaverse-5bd9fb67450
14: https://medium.com/@ow/the-metaverse-is-already-here-its-called-fortnite-3a7d92e4acfd
15: https://medium.com/mutualmobile/were-already-in-the-metaverse-we-just-don-t-know-it-f4e7c08af529
16: https://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/1454170183833059330
17: https://www.adweek.com/commerce/how-brands-find-value-in-metaverse/
18: https://twitter.com/andytouch/status/1462836908447440899
19: https://twitter.com/ShaanVP/status/1454151237650112512
20: This is taken from marketing newsletter copy. Sorry, I don’t have a link to it — you’ll just have to take my word for it!
21: https://www.matthewball.vc/all/themetaverse — if you can stomach it, https://www.matthewball.vc/the-metaverse-primer
22: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4473606-facebook-meta-platforms-investing-billions-to-make-trillions
23: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-hit-with-antitrust-lawsuit-by-federal-trade-commission-state-attorneys-general-11607543139
24: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/18/1047033994/facebook-metaverse-10-000-workers-europe-virtual-reality
25: https://youtu.be/Uvufun6xer8
26: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebooks-acquisitions-of-instagram-and-whatsapp-are-antitrust-targets-but-its-metaverse-mergers-may-be-the-victims-11640644272
27: https://cointelegraph.com/news/a-letter-to-zuckerberg-the-metaverse-is-not-what-you-think-it-is
28: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/the-metaverse-isnt-what-you-think-it-is-because-we-dont-know-what-it-is/
29: https://www.freethink.com/culture/digital-goods-metaverse
30: https://www.barrons.com/articles/cryptocurrency-metaverse-coinbase-stock-51635782938
31: https://hellofuture.orange.com/en/journey-through-the-metaverse-digital-twins-are-synchronizing-the-physical-and-virtual/
32: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/technology/metaverse-virtual-reality-big-tech.html
33: https://cointelegraph.com/news/new-tribes-of-the-metaverse-community-owned-economies
34: While I’ll source most Tweets, I won’t source these — some are by ordinary folks, and some are by journalists or “thinkers” who you can easily find by searching for yourself.
35: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVBCWFlgaXc&t=231s
36: No Maps for These Territories, Mark Neale, 2000