Everything Everywhere: Your Day in the Metaverse

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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What would a normal day look like inside the metaverse? When would we plug in, and would we ever switch off? Charles Arthur, former technology editor of The Guardian and author of Social Warming: The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media, joins Ahir Shah to talk about the upsides, downsides and the practicalities of striking a virtual to real-world balance. “The day in the metaverse will be a lot of meetings, a bit like zoom.” “Travel might be a lot better than slogging through a train and people generously giving you their colds.” “Well, everything gets used for work and porn in the end.” “We’ve all been on Twitter, everyone's all mouth and no trousers.” “Maybe everyone will want to wear their headset all day long and sit in little cubes.” “Where we start to blend the real world and cyber, is augmented reality, which is where you put on glasses and you have an overlay for the real world.” “How much extra value will you get from a metaverse meeting over a zoom meeting? If that gets unlocked, then it'll all start happening.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ahir Shah. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Assistant Producer: Elina Ganatra. Audio production by Jade Bailey. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:24.4	series on the Metiverse. 30 years after the word was coined by science fiction author
1:29.3	Neil Stevenson and his novel Snow Crash, the Metverse has become a 21st century bus word.
1:34.6	Facebook have renamed themselves Meta to stay at the forefront of what they see
1:38.6	as the new digital evolution and a study by research company Gartner predicts that a quarter of people will spend at least
1:45.1	an hour a day in the Metiverse by 2026.
1:48.6	But how will the Metiverse change the way we live?
1:51.1	What would a Meta Day look like? To give us a picture of what a quote unquote
1:56.4	normal day in the metaverse future might be, we're joined by Charles Arthur. Charles is a technology, science and health journalist with over 20 years experience having taken up roles as technology
2:08.2	editor for the Guardian and Independent.
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