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I've been working on this story for a while. The Metaverse is the next version of the Internet. And some believe that as of today, Fortnite has the best chance at doing it. washingtonpost.com/video-games/20…
This piece was partially inspired by @ballmatthew's great February essay, linked below.

But it's also Epic Games's very public ambition to create the Metaverse. Fortnite is far from done.

And the Metaverse seems more realistic in our current situation

matthewball.vc/all/themetaver…
Fortnite's ability to draw intellectual property from so many different sectors of media (sports, Disney, TV shows, Netflix, superheroes) is one of its biggest strengths.

That and its ability to draw millions to participate in a synchronized event washingtonpost.com/video-games/20…
The time to worry about the next evolution of the Internet is now, considering how much it disrupted economies and our way of life in the early aughts.

All the problems we have with online now? They're only going to get worse in the Metaverse.

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also need to shoutout @PaulTassi at Forbes who has been on this beat for quite a while, chronicling the little Metaverse building blocks Fortnite has been building the last year forbes.com/sites/paultass…
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Not only are there a bunch of fake Katie Bouman @instagram accounts now, but they’re spreading the lie about her colleague writing most of the code and commenters are just eating it up anyway thinking they’re replying to the real deal. They even made a fake account for the guy.
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