{"id":147111,"date":"2022-09-26T23:23:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T04:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/the-deanbeat-why-neal-stephenson-is-starting-a-metaverse-company-3-decades-after-snow-crash"},"modified":"2022-09-26T23:23:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T04:23:41","slug":"the-deanbeat-why-neal-stephenson-is-starting-a-metaverse-company-3-decades-after-snow-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/the-deanbeat-why-neal-stephenson-is-starting-a-metaverse-company-3-decades-after-snow-crash","title":{"rendered":"The DeanBeat: Why Neal Stephenson is starting a metaverse company 3 decades after Snow Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-deanbeat-why-neal-stephenson-is-starting-a-metaverse-company-3-decades-after-snow-crash.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Interested in learning what\u2019s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. <a href=\"https:\/\/gbsnext.venturebeat.com\/home?utm_source=vb&utm_medium=boiler&utm_content=landingpage&utm_campaign=BoilerPlates\">Register today<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not often that you get to hear things from the horse\u2019s mouth. In this case, I was able to do an interview with the guy who came up with the term \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2021\/04\/16\/the-deanbeat-a-big-bang-week-for-the-metaverse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">metaverse<\/a>\u201d decades ago. I feel like I\u2019ve been waiting decades to talk to him.<\/p>\n<p>Science fiction author Neal Stephenson recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20220608005423\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> he was teaming up with crypto entrepreneur Peter Vessenes to create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamina1.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lamina1<\/a>, a blockchain technology startup dedicated to the open <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/05\/05\/just-how-close-are-we-to-achieving-the-metaverse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">metaverse<\/a>, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, as first depicted in Stephenson\u2019s novel <em><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2019\/12\/21\/snow-crash-inspired-the-metaverse-and-now-its-becoming-an-hbo-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Snow Crash<\/a><\/em>, which debuted 30 years ago in 1992. I interviewed both Vessenes and Stephenson yesterday, just a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2022\/06\/15\/mckinsey-co-metaverse-could-reach-5-trillion-in-value-by-2030\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">McKinsey &amp; Co. predicted<\/a> the metaverse would be worth $5 trillion by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in learning what\u2019s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Register today. It\u2019s not often that you get to hear things from the horse\u2019s mouth. In this case, I was able to do an interview with the guy who came [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3818,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchains","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147111","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}