Neal Stephenson: Reflections on the Latest and Greatest Death of the Metaverse

> Having built it, though, you might discover that it’s just a lot of randos milling around waiting for something to happen.

Amen

I think this is the best elegy of the far future “market.” There’s not enough wild people to maintain momentum, and most people follow trends

if the trend itself is extremely costly to your existing lifestyle, uptake is impossible.

And I have most of my experience in AR so these are all things we knew but hoped would be able to be surmounted quickly however the social climate isn’t there

It’s just too far of a bridge and will take a few more generations.

Turns out Snow Crash wasn't an $80B business plan unless there were games and/or gambling involved.