How to stop the metaverse from becoming the internet's bad sequel | Micaela Mantegna

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🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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"The metaverse is already on fire, and we haven't even built it yet," says TED Fellow and video game lawyer Micaela Mantegna. She lays out why the metaverse is at risk of inheriting some of the internet's worst traits, like unchecked surveillance -- and shows how we could redirect its fate through new laws grounded in kindness and connection.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:07.2	Okay, Web 3.
0:08.6	It's a new iteration of the internet that includes metaverses, cryptocurrency, and more.
0:15.0	But we've already seen how the digital world can inherit the injustices and biases of
0:19.8	our physical reality.
0:21.8	In our talk from Ted 2022, video game lawyer Michaela Mentegna offers practical ways to
0:28.0	avoid the mistakes of Web 2.0, which is the social web, as we make the move into Web 3.0.
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