tl;dr: If we want to see the metaverse happen in our lifetime, we need to invest our time, money, creativity, and resources into making it happen.
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Which brings me back to the whole game thing. Back when Philip ran the Lab, Second Life was not a game. Under Rod’s leadership, a game is exactly what he’s trying to turn it into.
My advice is: If you want to see the metaverse we imagined, then stop playing the perpetual hoping and waiting game that Second Life is. Because if there’s one thing I’m sure of, it’s that the metaverse won’t spring forth from hoping and waiting."