This is the Katori Daily Podcast for Thursday, December 9th, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

How will the Metaverse change human interaction?

Will dominance by a few key players like Facebook compel people to use their state-issued identities?

Will Duffield describe some of the problems and potential solutions for life beyond the real

world? In a way, everything all solutions for life beyond the real world.

In a way, everything old is new again.

The Metaverse is a name for a suite of technologies that aspire to create a persistent shared virtual world where we can

interact as we do in the real one and that includes you potentially

threatening me with your voice or with gestures.

In the real world it's very hard to control or police passing one-off interactions between persons, but as we've used the written and

televisual medium to record and transmit communication, it's become easier to police.

When there's a written record or a stored video, someone else can look back at that and

see what you've said to me and if it crosses some sort of line.

But in this virtual metaverse, sharing a virtual space with you,

we may interact in a way that upsets me, but like in the real world,

I don't have a good way of transmitting or informing others of your threats. It's just down to my word.

Okay, so there are other technologies. You said has mentioned a suite of technologies.

Some of these are meant to mimic human touch.

Yes.

Facebook in their attempts to build out their virtual reality technologies and world have come up with

Haptic gloves. They aren't the first to first to do so, but all of these haptic technologies hope to make

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