157! Information Control

Published: Jan. 31, 2022, 11:21 a.m.

Are we actually passive victims to social media or do you see a future where we have some modicum of control?This week, Joey and Jess talk about the metaverse, Web3, public ledgers of information, entropy, "baroque speculative fiction," and nerds. They don\u2019t talk about NFTs, weirdly enough.references\ufeff* Neal Stephenson's\xa0Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, in\xa0print (https://bookshop.org/a/16188/9780062458728)\xa0or as an\xa0audiobook (https://www.audible.com/pd/Fall-or-Dodge-in-Hell-Audiobook/1511328401)* NYT's The Daily Podcast:\xa0Microsoft and the Metaverse (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/podcasts/the-daily/metaverse-microsoft-activision-blizzard.html)* Memetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics)* New Scientist:\xa0What is Web3 and how will it change the way we use the internet? (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301706-what-is-web3-and-how-will-it-change-the-way-we-use-the-internet/)