MetaVerse

Troy Warren for CNT #NFT The Metaverse seems to be an immensely huge concept that’s been riding the media wave of hyped topics at the moment. From Facebook’s rebrand to Meta, Microsoft’s pivot into the Metaverse for corporate uses, and the rising number of decentralized Metaverse games, the concept of the Metaverse appears to be the medium for connecting elements of gaming, sociality, finances, blockchain, work, art, and crypto together. Journey to the Metaverse In our introductory explanation of the Metaverse, ’The Journey towards the Metaverse’, we outlined the origins of the term as one that emerged from the writings of Neal…

Troy Warren for CNT #NFT The term “metaverse” was coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel,  Snow Crash. In this book, the metaverse was a virtual, interactive universe accessible through special goggles, where individuals could build, explore, interact, conduct business, and do much, much more. Nearly three decades later, the tech community is working towards making this idea a reality. Decades of Dreaming The idea of a virtual universe adjacent to the physical has captured the imagination of scientists and storytellers for decades. The concept was first presented as something called cyberspace in William Gibson’s 1984 science fiction novel Neuromancer. This early…