You know that many Metaverse visions are highly available with a simple Google search.

However, I recently read Neal Stephenson’s vision of the Metaverse, who coined the term in his novel Snow Crash. In a very insightful article and interview with Mr. Stephenson at Fast Company last week, he laid out how he viewed the Metaverse and how his new company, Lamina1, which Stephenson started with Peter Vessenes, “is creating a blockchain optimized for Open Metaverse communities to provide infrastructure, not gatekeepers, to build a more immersive Internet.”

I recommend that you read this article in its entirety because Mr. Stephenson is a serious authority on this subject; I agree with a lot…