Do We Need The Metaverse? — With Nick Clegg

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Nick Clegg is the president for global affairs at Meta and former deputy prime minister of the UK. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss his company's vision for the Metaverse, how it should be governed, and whether we actually need it. Stick around for the second half where we speak about Meta's app store fees, whether the company should instead focus on winning over younger users, and the ethics of its lobbying effort. This podcast was recorded live from Davos during the World Economic Forum's annual meeting.

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0:00.0	From LinkedIn News, I'm Leah Smart, host of Everyday Better, an award-winning podcast dedicated to personal development.
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0:17.2	LinkedIn Presents.
0:46.6	Thank you. LinkedIn Presents Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversations of the tech world and beyond. We are here at Davos in association with Unfinished
0:53.1	and the Web3 Foundation.
0:54.9	We're going to start big, and I'm about to introduce our guest in a moment, but just to let
0:58.5	you know that we have four conversations coming up after this one, Gavin Wood, the co-founder
1:02.5	of Ethereum, Vivian Schiller, the executive director at the Aspen Institute here in the audience
1:06.9	today, which is awesome. Nick Thompson, CEO of Atlantic and Professor Eric
1:11.0	Bernioffson, who's the author of the second Machine Agent does great work at Stanford. And now
1:15.7	for our guest today, joining us today is Nick Clegg, the president of global affairs at Meta and
1:20.3	the former deputy prime minister at the UK. Nick, how are you? I'm right. How are you? I'm doing
1:24.9	well. I'm excited to speak with you about all things meta, but first I got to start
1:27.9	with this. You must be thrilled that Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitter. I mean, for all of the
1:32.9	scrutiny that Facebook gets, and I'm trying to build this delicately, it must be like a really nice
1:36.9	distraction. I'm not sure that was his plan, or certainly not ours, suppose I suppose you're right in saying that
1:48.8	it does reinforce given that he is very deliberately sought to kind of open a debate around free expression versus content moderation
1:59.1	it does reinforce something which
2:01.2	sort of I live and breathe every day, which is it's difficult. It's really difficult to draw
2:05.7	these lines in a way that, you know, enjoys consensus. And in a sense, it just kind of reinforces
2:12.0	the kind of push-you-pull-me quality of the debate around free expression versus content
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