136: Metaverse with Daniel Liebeskind

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

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4.6 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Decentralizing the future can often lead to missing out on genuine human communication. Daniel Liebeskind, Cofounder and CEO of Topia, talks about how they’re working to avoid that pitfall while building the foundation of a better online experience. Whether its his lessons from Burning Man, keeping the human spirit alive in today’s technological frontier, or how Topia fits in the future, Daniel has something for listeners.

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0:00.0	Programming Throwdown, Episode 136, Metaverse with Daniel Lebeskind.
0:21.1	Take it away, Patrick.
0:22.8	Welcome, everyone, to another episode of programming throwdown.
0:26.1	Hard to believe we're on 136.
0:28.4	I think I say that every time now.
0:30.1	Yeah, the time continues to fly.
0:32.6	The direction of time is an arrow.
0:34.9	Oh, no, no, okay.
0:35.4	Time flies like a banana or something. Or is that fruit flies like a banana? That's, okay. You're over my head now. All right, well, welcome. We're here on what I think is going to be a really awesome episode, talk about, I guess, you know, sometimes we see those list of buzzwords, and a lot of times they just wash over us.
0:54.4	You don't know necessarily what they mean.
0:56.8	But we have someone who has made it their current mission to tackle what is the
1:03.7	metaverse and to build out a part of that and to just be immersed in it.
1:08.0	So I think they're going to help us on our journey of going from Metaverse as a buzzword and something that I think I've read in a couple of science fiction
1:15.9	books into, you know, bringing it down to earth. And what does it mean today? And what does it
1:21.2	mean to be sort of like working in the Metaverse and how are we, where are we at in that journey
1:27.1	to this cultural idea, I guess.
1:31.1	Okay, that was a lot.
1:31.7	That was a big setup.
1:32.8	I think I'm going to introduce the co-founder and CEO of Topia.
1:37.3	Daniel, welcome to the show, Daniel.
1:39.4	Hey, thanks for having me.
1:40.7	I'm pretty far enough to be here.
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