Tadden, it's got the code it's going to launch.

It's a unit system.

I know this.

It's how all the files of the whole park.

It tells you everything.

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

Eagle One. The package is being delivered.

Hello out there on the internet.

I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.

The future is here, if you can pay for it.

From NFTs to Web 3 to virtual worlds, it seems like everyone has a pitch about what the future looks like and how we get there.

For those involved, it's a frenzied world of big money and massive opportunity.

From the outside looking in, a lot of it looks like a massive scam.

When I was a kid, the future meant flying cars and virtual worlds of our own creation.

Now people are telling me it means clunky headsets, pictures of cartoon apes, and decentralized

platforms that make absolutely no sense, but will make those involved filthy rich.

What the hell is going on?

With me today, to figure it out is motherboard managing editor Jordan Pearson and special guest

Jackson Palmer Palmer is perhaps most famous for creating the doge coin but he's also a musician

a programmer and the host of the excellent new show Gryftonomics. Thank you both so much for being here.

Thanks for having me.

All right, Jackson, for those who don't know, can you tell us about your background and the brief story of Doge?

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