{"id":147870,"date":"2022-10-10T01:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/sci-fi-author-neal-stephenson-wants-to-build-a-metaverse-open-to-all"},"modified":"2022-10-10T01:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T06:22:19","slug":"sci-fi-author-neal-stephenson-wants-to-build-a-metaverse-open-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/sci-fi-author-neal-stephenson-wants-to-build-a-metaverse-open-to-all","title":{"rendered":"Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants to build a metaverse open to all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sci-fi-author-neal-stephenson-wants-to-build-a-metaverse-open-to-all3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Science-fiction author Neal Stephenson predicted cryptocurrencies and virtual worlds \u2014 even coining the term metaverse \u2014 in his 1992 novel Snow Crash. Now, 30 years later, he is combining the two ideas by launching a blockchain-powered open metaverse. It is a move that sets him against big tech firms with their own metaverse plans, so why is he doing it and what even is an open metaverse?<\/p>\n<p>Developers have pushed various versions of the metaverse for decades, but nothing has stuck.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Lamina1 was contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Neal Stephenson was contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science-fiction author Neal Stephenson predicted cryptocurrencies and virtual worlds \u2014 even coining the term metaverse \u2014 in his 1992 novel Snow Crash. Now, 30 years later, he is combining the two ideas by launching a blockchain-powered open metaverse. It is a move that sets him against big tech firms with their own metaverse plans, so [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3818,1761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchains","category-cryptocurrencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147870","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}