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Episode: Is the metaverse going to suck? A conversation with Matthew Ball
Description: All right, let’s talk about the metaverse. You probably can’t stop hearing about it. It’s in startup pitches, in earnings reports, some companies are creating metaverse divisions, and Mark Zuckerberg changed Facebook’s name to Meta to signal that he’s shifting the entire company to focus on the metaverse.The problem, very simply, is that no one knows what the metaverse is, what it’s supposed to do, or why anyone should care about it.Luckily, we have some help. Today, I’m talking to Matthew Ball, who is the author of t...