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The gamer community inspired Alexis Ohanian to co-found Reddit. The future of our virtual lives, he says, will rise from the bottom up too.
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Brandon Smith went to the Texas RenFaire on Navy leave. He didn't make it back.
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I spoke with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy about his new newsletter, Starship Casual, losing his parents, and how his stage persona almost destroyed him. "It…
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"Minecraft and Fortnite are closer to the metaverse than anything Facebook has built, or frankly, is likely to build,” John Carmack tells me.
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When the pandemic untethered millions of workers from their offices, a new species of digital nomad was born. They set off with laptops and passports…
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Why I'm launching my own newsletter on Substack
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Why I'm writing a sequel to my book, Masters of Doom, in my newsletter.
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For visionary sci-fi authors William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, the future of our virtual lives starts with games.
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Id Software co-founder Tom Hall on the metaverse, Commander Keen, and the importance of pushwalls. "There's more than appears," he says.
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John Romero has seen the future of the metaverse, and it's not Snow Crash.
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"I Can Feel Myself Changing." My Rolling Stone Profile of Mark Zuckerberg, Age 21, Uncut.Listen now | In December 2005, I flew to Palo Alto to write one of the first major magazine profiles of Facebook's young founder. He made tea. He played…
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Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [8]Listen now (3 min) | Long before Meta, there was Second Life.
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