Everything Everywhere: Your Day in the Metaverse

What would a normal day look like inside the metaverse? When would we plug in, and would we ever switch off? Charles Arthur, former technology editor of The Guardian and author of Social Warming: The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media, joins Ahir Shah to talk about the upsides, downsides and the practicalities of striking a virtual to real-world balance.

• “The day in the metaverse will be a lot of meetings, a bit like zoom.”
• “Travel might be a lot better than slogging through a train and people generously giving you their colds.”
• “Well, everything gets used for work and porn in the end.”
• “We’ve all been on Twitter, everyone's all mouth and no trousers.”
• “Maybe everyone will want to wear their headset all day long and sit in little cubes.”
• “Where we start to blend the real world and cyber, is augmented reality, which is where you put on glasses and you have an overlay for the real world.”
• “How much extra value will you get from a metaverse meeting over a zoom meeting? If that gets unlocked, then it'll all start happening.”

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Written and presented by Ahir Shah. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Assistant Producer: Elina Ganatra. Audio production by Jade Bailey. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production

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