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Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [2]
"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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Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [4]
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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Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [1]
Why I'm writing a sequel to my book, Masters of Doom, in my newsletter.
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Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [7]
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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Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [5]
For visionary sci-fi authors William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, the future of our virtual lives starts with games.
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Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [3]
John Romero has seen the future of the metaverse, and it's not Snow Crash.
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Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [36]
Dennis "Thresh" Fong on the highs and lows of being the first pro gamer.
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Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [17]
"With AI, I'm looking for that clever hack." In my new interview, John Carmack discuss his legacy, the future of AI, and why he almost went into nuclear…
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Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [8]
Long before Meta, there was Second Life.
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Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [18]
In part two of my conversation with John Carmack: the Holodeck, emails from Zuck, and the S curve of success.
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Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [25]
Doom co-creator Tom Hall on virtual reality and the future of game design.
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Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [19]
In Part 3 of my interview with John Carmack, Quake III Arena, Beat Saber, and why he thinks "all the things that you wind up doing on your phone…
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