Episode 196 — Forecasting the Metaverse

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Ben and James discuss Facebook and Microsoft’s metaverse announcements, and how the future might play out. Links Ben Thompson: Meta — Stratechery Ben Thompson: An Interview with Mark Zuckerberg about the Metaverse — Stratechery Ben Thompson: AR vs. VR — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Apps, People, and Jobs to be Done — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Metaverses — Stratechery Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter Feedback

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0:00.0	Hi, James.
0:02.5	Ben, how are you?
0:04.5	Good, so soon.
0:06.8	I feel like we just said goodbye.
0:09.0	Like London buses, nothing for months and then two come along at once.
0:13.3	Is that a saying?
0:14.7	Yeah, that is actually a saying.
0:16.3	They say that about London.
0:17.4	I don't know.
0:17.9	It's six months.
0:18.9	I did pick up that they say about London buses, yes.
0:21.6	Yeah, not six months, but yes, they never come along and then they all come along at once.
0:27.5	And here we are. Cultural, cultural learning experience. It is true. I mean, it's also a case of
0:33.2	of catnip for us on this podcast, what we might be talking about, which might be the other reason
0:39.7	that we're back.
0:40.7	Yeah, seriously.
0:41.4	I thought I said, oh, I might, you know, occasionally take some more days off, slow down
0:46.0	my posting a little bit, and then like 47 gazillion things happen at once, which was,
0:50.2	but it was good in a couple of respects.
0:52.3	One is interesting stuff.
0:54.8	Two, I found myself very reinvigorated, like wanting more days to post.
1:00.8	Like the, I mean, because while this meta thing happened, which we're going to talk about today,
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