So...Metaverse. Blah blah Neuromancer. Matthew Ball's Metaverse definition starts "A massively scaled and interoperable network of real-time rendered 3D virtual worlds...". I'm all about science fiction prototyping and using stories to imagine new worlds into reality, but have we picked the right horse to bet on?

Skeptimist, Strategist, Threatcaster, FWB.  Stories inspire futures.

Having just reread the Sprawl trilogy, the “matrix” is mostly bad juju, filled with demons and vengeful gods and broken dreams. All the humanity is on the street, the Real.