Barbados to become first sovereign nation with an embassy in the Metaverse. 🤯
“The Barbadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade signed an agreement on Sunday with @decentraland for the establishment of a digital embassy.
“the government is also finalizing agreements with “Somnium Space, SuperWorld and other Metaverse platforms”
“In an interview with CoinDesk, Barbados’ ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, H.E. Gabriel Abed, said that the country intends to expand aggressively beyond this initial effort to build structures and purchase digital land in a variety of virtual worlds.”
Ok What’s this Metaverse thing everyone keeps talking about?
Books, Ready Player One, random nerds on the internet and now Facebook?
The next decade is going to be LEGENDARY.
1/ Thread 👇
2/ What is the Metaverse?
There’s a lot to unpack here.
Wikipedia has a good line on this,
"Metaverse is a speculative future iteration of the Internet, made up of persistent, shared, 3D virtual spaces linked into a perceived virtual universe."
3/ The term initially made an appearance in the book “Snow Crash”.
I’m not going to fake it. I didn’t read Snow Crash.
But I DID watch Ready Player One and was like HOLY SHIT this is the future.