An interview with Chip Morningstar who built a metaverse in the 1980s.
, a man who thought a lot about the metaverse and the things we could do there way back in the mid-1980s. Morningstar was the project lead for Habitat, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game considered a forerunner of modern MMORPGs and the first graphical virtual world. Habitat could support more than 15,000 people at a time, allowing them to run businesses, play games, experiment with self-government, wage wars, fall in love, and do much more in space.
Whether it’s built by a tech company, a non-profit, a government, or a community barn raising, anything viable, pretty much by definition, has to have a working revenue model. So far, nobody has articulated one for the metaverse that’s different from more of the same that we’ve been living with for the past couple of decades. In that case, “the metaverse” would have to deliver some new capability that current media can’t match, and I’ve yet to see evidence of anything like that.
The metaverse would have to deliver some new capability that current media can’t match, and I’ve yet to see evidence of anything like that. I don’t really buy into the premise of the question. Web 2.0 was certainly an advance in UX, but I’m not convinced it changed anything fundamental. There are definitely profound ethical dimensions to metaverse efforts but it’s not the metaverse per se that introduces the ethical questions. It’s the players in the space and what they are attempting to do that matters.
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