{"id":146998,"date":"2022-09-25T07:24:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/guy-who-invented-the-word-metaverse-building-his-own-metaverse"},"modified":"2022-09-25T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T12:24:08","slug":"guy-who-invented-the-word-metaverse-building-his-own-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/guy-who-invented-the-word-metaverse-building-his-own-metaverse","title":{"rendered":"Guy Who Invented the Word \u201cMetaverse\u201d Building His Own Metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/guy-who-invented-the-word-metaverse-building-his-own-metaverse2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The science fiction icon who coined and popularized the term \u201cmetaverse\u201d is pausing his literary career to build his own.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/plaintext-neal-stephenson-named-the-metaverse-now-hes-building-it\/\" class=\"\">revealed by <em>Wired<\/em><\/a>, \u201cSnow Crash\u201d author and cyberpunk pioneer Neal Stephenson is working with a crypto bro to create an open metaverse platform that will, its creators hope, be a more decentralized version of the types of Big Tech metaverses like those run by Fortnite and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like Neal is coming down out of the mountains like Gandalf, to restore the metaverse to an open, decentralized, and creative order,\u201d said robotics and augmented reality entrepreneur Rony Abovitz, who is also acting as a strategic advisor to Lamina1, the company Stephenson is cofounding with Bitcoin Foundation head Peter Vessenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The science fiction icon who coined and popularized the term \u201cmetaverse\u201d is pausing his literary career to build his own. As revealed by Wired, \u201cSnow Crash\u201d author and cyberpunk pioneer Neal Stephenson is working with a crypto bro to create an open metaverse platform that will, its creators hope, be a more decentralized version of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1318,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-bitcoin","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}