Web2 Media Is Broken. The Future of Media Is Tokenized.

“We need more reach.”  “This will get a lot of clicks.” “The client won’t be happy with these numbers.”    We’ve heard these narratives nonstop since our media careers began more than 15 years ago. They are thought patterns that have been normalized in newsrooms and ad agencies across the world. ...

Neal Stephenson Reveals How He Created the Metaverse

When New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson first coined the term metaverse in his 1992 cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, he set a high bar for other science fiction authors to come, including the worlds subsequently created in films like The Matrix. His immersive literary technique and attention to detail in...