The Metaverse Fully Revised and Updated Edition: Building the Spatial Internet

this week on Offline John is joined by pioneering theorist and venture capitalist Matthew Ball to discuss his new book The Metaverse and how it will revolutionize everything

Here's our conversation with Matthew Ball, the CEO of Apillion and author of the revised book, The Metaverse, Building the Spatial Internet.

I think when you take a look at many of the technological impediments to building what many have imagined, whether that's a headset or just a digital twin, a persistent simulation of San Francisco as Tesla is now seeking to build, a lot of the time we are facing literal laws of physics constraints.

There's a chapter, I guess it's an updated chapter in your book, that explores the century-long history of AI and AI philosophy, and also the six ways this technology controls the metaverse. Walk us through those.

You also had an edition of the book where you're talking about big tech's fight over undersea cable infrastructure and Starlink versus Amazon's project Kuiper.

But if you can be relatively unsentimental about going for in my case streaming video was really hard in 2013 you didn't know who to hire you didn't know the business model it was darn hard to get an app on a samsung tv any television but by 2017 2018 we essentially figured it out which is why 2019 we saw every single service on earth come to market I pivoted out to an uncertain category and when you have the opportunity to learn go to labs talk to entrepreneurs on slack day in and day out about something no one has figured out yet but most people think is about to become significant you end up with a multi-year advantage that you can continue to compound