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How to Stop the Metaverse from Becoming the Internet’s Bad Sequel | Micaela Mantegna | TED

“The metaverse is already on fire, and we haven’t even built it yet,” says TED Fellow and video game lawyer Micaela Mantegna. She lays out why the metaverse is at risk of inheriting some of the internet’s worst traits, like unchecked surveillance — and shows how we could redirect its fate through new laws grounded…

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“The metaverse is already on fire, and we haven’t even built it yet,” says TED Fellow and video game lawyer Micaela Mantegna. She lays out why the metaverse is at risk of inheriting some of the internet’s worst traits, like unchecked surveillance — and shows how we could redirect its fate through new laws grounded in kindness and connection.

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104 Comments

  1. NullBlox.ZachryWilsn

    August 30, 2022 at 5:24 pm

    Peace 2 The Metaverse!

  2. Julio Lopez

    August 30, 2022 at 5:43 pm

    This lady is boomer, kinda irrelevant

  3. Pseudo Nym

    August 30, 2022 at 6:12 pm

    Simple. DON’T USE IT.

    Starve GAFAM of its precious data.

  4. OD

    August 30, 2022 at 6:22 pm

    How to stop high fructose corn syrup from becoming cane sugar’s bad sequel. And we must find a way for the poorest to not be excluded from the bright new future of high fructose corn syrup. So governments should subsidize high fructose corn syrup for all. And somehow: blockchain. The first to reply will receive the NFT for this brilliant comment.

    • Technolus

      August 30, 2022 at 7:45 pm

      Yeah. Computer technology, and sugar. Both equally important and at equal risk of leaving people alienated from the rest of society

    • OD

      August 30, 2022 at 8:47 pm

      @Technolus Ka-ching! You win the NFT!

    • Technolus

      August 30, 2022 at 8:57 pm

      @OD No

  5. SpartanF8

    August 30, 2022 at 6:22 pm

    So much hyperbole and obvious facts mixed with technical deepities

  6. stillpaints

    August 30, 2022 at 6:27 pm

    This lady is a walking distraction. I have no idea what points she was trying to make.

  7. Jonathan Cousins

    August 30, 2022 at 6:28 pm

    Meta verse will never work. Period. Digital scarcity is a ridiculous and selfish idea

    • Retro Crypt

      August 30, 2022 at 8:48 pm

      yep

  8. David Kinoranyi

    August 30, 2022 at 7:12 pm

    180 comments and 695 dislikes (thanks Return Youtube Dislikes) is a good representation of our society. Go silent grumbling, go!

    • Νίκος

      August 30, 2022 at 8:16 pm

      Exactly, whoever is against Zuckerberg and the Metaverse gets silenced, smh…

  9. ForeignMonk34

    August 30, 2022 at 7:16 pm

    The Lizard men led by mr. Zuckerberg don’t agree.

  10. Sol

    August 30, 2022 at 7:48 pm

    I love that idea and kindness is similar to a string, because we are connected.

  11. NumbNutsJunior

    August 30, 2022 at 8:01 pm

    Bro it’s literally a VR chat, how do these become Ted talks?

  12. Νίκος

    August 30, 2022 at 8:15 pm

    Screw Facebook and screw Zuckerberg

  13. Gordon Deans

    August 30, 2022 at 8:26 pm

    Just cyber babble. I know there is a serious message in here somewhere but I could not hear it or see it. All I got was green hair, green hair, green hair that the speaker kept pointing to every 10-15 words. Please provide a text transcript to help understand the message.

  14. Hack-n-Mate

    August 30, 2022 at 9:10 pm

    First 30 seconds I couldn’t keep watching.

  15. KJ

    August 30, 2022 at 9:23 pm

    Longer term if it games human psychology well enough then it could be digital heroin. An existence like the matrix awaits.. what could possibly go wrong?

  16. Disciple

    August 30, 2022 at 9:26 pm

    Why is this a TED talk? What a waste.
    I guess they let anyone do these now days….

  17. Alex Oblak

    August 30, 2022 at 9:31 pm

    Terrible accent 😕

  18. Shane Bro

    August 30, 2022 at 10:01 pm

    With 5G going to fry our brains getting into the Metaverse will destroy our DNA! RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY!!!

  19. Laurent Tillette de Clermont-Tonnerre

    August 30, 2022 at 10:34 pm

    Good warning! “as free as we can afford to play”, seems same as IRL!

  20. Solitary Reaper

    August 30, 2022 at 11:08 pm

    what is this unholy freaky creature, get it out of my face

  21. Çhöcölattè Dreäms

    August 30, 2022 at 11:45 pm

    *I WAS going to be the 666th Iike..So I unliked..Every act matters.* 🤣🤣

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      August 31, 2022 at 12:14 am

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  22. Bryan Martin

    August 31, 2022 at 2:07 am

    You do manifestation

  23. Stefan Lyu

    August 31, 2022 at 3:25 am

    Thank you very much for the creative consideration

  24. niccolom

    August 31, 2022 at 3:28 am

    What the heck?

    The Metaverse is going to be the best thing to happen to humans after the internet.

    With the Metaverse, I can attend TED Talks virtually, and watch the talks at any angles I want, and I don’t have to be confined to a seat. And the best of all, I don’t have to travel around the world to get to it.

    I fully support the Metaverse. The virtual world is better than the real world. The elimination of travelling (and queueing) is a big enough reason to support it. I want to see things, but I hate the travel.

    • Remy Lebeau

      August 31, 2022 at 3:42 pm

      Yeah, it’s not like you can already see things on a pc monitor and visit virtual spaces and meetings.

    • Technolus

      August 31, 2022 at 4:27 pm

      @Remy Lebeau it’s not the same. Vr can enable real time face to face talks with the speaker (or anyone really), sharing of 3d models you can explore with others, and most of all, it can enable all those seamlessly at the same time.
      It’s how online learning has a retention rate of like 25% and vr increases it to 75%.
      While being digitally generated the brain interprets it as reality, possibilitating the range of experiences of first person interactions.

    • Remy Lebeau

      August 31, 2022 at 4:42 pm

      @Technolus We already have facetime, which is real time face to face talking. Let me know when you have the Holodeck from Star Trek, THEN I’ll be impressed.

      I never said VR couldn’t have a place in our modern world, but the things listed by the original comment were absurd considering they already exist with normal tech.

    • niccolom

      September 1, 2022 at 1:29 am

      @Remy Lebeau
      No, you can’t be there in first-person, full 3D and 360 degrees.

    • Remy Lebeau

      September 1, 2022 at 4:05 am

      @niccolom You aren’t there in first person, your avatar is not you, just a representation of you. Camera angles can show me any of the angles you are talking about. 360 degrees.

  25. Rae Karner

    August 31, 2022 at 4:58 am

    The silence –as the crowd’s collective brain was broken and they didn’t get the jokes– was painful. <3 ya

  26. Steve Molloy

    August 31, 2022 at 7:30 am

    I’m none the wiser on the Metaverse thanks to this vague talk.

    • Technolus

      August 31, 2022 at 9:24 pm

      I found this talk to be quite spot on.
      A talk about pitfalls of of current internet economy already overflowing into the metaverse, about interoperability requiring both technical and legislative frameworks, and about equality and positivity in the metaverse demanding careful consideration and rethinking of paywalls and data silos.

    • Steve Molloy

      August 31, 2022 at 11:21 pm

      @Technolus she didn’t explain that physical real estate will be digitized on the blockchain.

    • Technolus

      August 31, 2022 at 11:38 pm

      @Steve Molloy do you mean like the sale of land/houses as nft’s?

    • Steve Molloy

      August 31, 2022 at 11:51 pm

      @Technolus maybe cities might be wrapped up in NFTS or tropical islands full of paid-off houses. At the moment it’s just a joke with silly jpegs.

    • Technolus

      September 1, 2022 at 12:16 am

      @Steve Molloy Yeah there’s a lot of people bothered that someone else is buying overly expensive jpegs. I really don’t care, it’s not my money, they do with their money whatever they wish.
      But blockchain hasn’t been playing much of a role in the metaverse. when talking about metaverse people are mostly referring to virtual reality, more specifically social vr.
      things like meta horizons, vrchat, rec room, neosvr and others. Of all these, only neos embraced blockchain but it didn’t go very well (not too sure exactly why, but the crypto hype and the issues it brought might have played a role).
      I know there are blockchain projects like decentraland, but last I checked they didn’t support vr, which I found baffling.

  27. Elder Lemon

    August 31, 2022 at 7:50 am

    Just play final fantasy 14 yall. Sucky zucky has no idea what he’s doing.

  28. Everyday Towards a Better Self

    August 31, 2022 at 7:51 am

    Metaverse is useless

    • Technolus

      August 31, 2022 at 4:18 pm

      It’s most certainly not. Businesses that take advantage of real-time collaboration between remote offices beyond the basic capabilities of zoom, are actually looking forward to this kind of technology.

  29. nun-chan

    August 31, 2022 at 9:15 am

    Perhaps, I would’ve dreamed and met a verse. I’d always stray in this two-dimensional space, Even I’d always lose my way with dictionary as a map. today I’d been cast a spell,I couldn’t remember the spell, but she said “you’d become to be able to comprehend the virtual three-dimensional space.” It’d be only a dream, wouldn’t it?

    • Technolus

      August 31, 2022 at 9:31 pm

      😁👍

  30. nun-chan

    August 31, 2022 at 9:15 am

    Perhaps, I would’ve dreamed and met a verse. I’d always stray in this two-dimensional space, Even I’d always lose my way with dictionary as a map. today I’d been cast a spell,I couldn’t remember the spell, but she said “you’d become to be able to comprehend the virtual three-dimensional space.” It’d be only a dream, wouldn’t it?
    Hi technolus
    . thanks for your reply comment.I suppose it’d make you feel a little unsatisfied. I’m sorry I’m not well versed in both virtual and real technology. I’ve remembered her jumon/spell that adding the spell “t” last, your desire will be real, it’ll make avatar”

  31. Erik Bertolini

    August 31, 2022 at 9:37 am

    Super speech.
    I don’t know how many time humanity needs to complete the transfer process, from real life to virtual life in metaverse, but I don’t think so long.
    Anyway is the perfect way to escape from all the troubles wich affect contemporary society.
    A lot of people sad and bored about their complicates lifes, who can live in a different world maybe with a monthly payment, as all common digital services.
    You’re poor and you can be faking rich, yo’re man but you can be a fake woman, you’re ugly but you can be pretty ecc.
    I agree about cyberpunk books as snow crash, and them ready player one could be a sort of premonition about our future, where everyone could be something different, because life conditions becoming worse than before. Sometimes everyone of us want to escape and start something different, maybe not in the whole life but just in some parts. And it will be very hard to create right laws for that world in few time. Could be the next great change, or maybe not, but the perfect words are the last of this speech by this super girl, we could be so lucky to create a brand new society, why don’t we try

    • Technolus

      August 31, 2022 at 9:29 pm

      It’s not going to be a transfer, it’s going to be a merge. Aspects of one carried to the other and vice-versa.
      Looking at where it’s at today, you can still tell the rich from the poor: rich have better technology, and more expensive assets in-game. Politics and nastiness and harrassment carry over too. But you do get to fly or look like whatever you fancy, and unlike real life when you see someone you don’t like you can just block them and they are (usually) gone for good.

    • Erik Bertolini

      August 31, 2022 at 9:56 pm

      @Technolus I understood. I agree.

  32. Athelstan

    August 31, 2022 at 9:48 am

    ur hair is funny

    • Micaela Mantegna

      September 2, 2022 at 5:18 pm

      Thanks, the green stands for the pro-choice movement!

  33. Parkermystro11

    August 31, 2022 at 12:00 pm

    30 years of research for a 6 minute speech that taught me nothing

    • Technolus

      August 31, 2022 at 4:15 pm

      It’s unlikely that she spend 30 years just for these 6 minutes. As for you getting nothing from it, it’s probably because this is too advanced of a topic for people who don’t have a decent grasp on the subject to begin with.

  34. Великий Кіт Шлэппэнко

    August 31, 2022 at 12:09 pm

    cringe

  35. FilthyGringo

    August 31, 2022 at 12:15 pm

    How to stop it becoming the Internet’s bad sequel? Simple. Kill it now before it has the chance.

  36. Andy Cordy

    August 31, 2022 at 12:33 pm

    What a huge topic to try to cover in just a few minutes. As ever, in human terms, turning ethical systems into realistic frameworks is great in theory but, as ever, the human element will always corrupt any system. I believe, aas we hear in this talk that robustness in our creations must favour the good intentions and discourage the bad.

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  38. Wei Quan

    August 31, 2022 at 12:45 pm

    the accent is really hard to understand…

    • Technolus

      August 31, 2022 at 4:11 pm

      I found it pretty easy to understand. You can turn on subtitles.

    • Wei Quan

      September 1, 2022 at 1:31 am

      @Technolus thank you

  39. kim__sama

    August 31, 2022 at 1:12 pm

    مش فاهمة حاجة 🙂

  40. Matt

    August 31, 2022 at 2:46 pm

    how can you expect to be taken seriously when you stand on stage dressed like a clown?

    • Technolus

      August 31, 2022 at 4:10 pm

      Easy: because personal attacks are 0etty things and don’t actually relate to the contents of her talk.

    • Jjjjj

      August 31, 2022 at 5:53 pm

      @Technolus when you’re public speaking to a room full of adults you’re supposed to put in effort to wear something not distracting. it’s common sense

    • Technolus

      August 31, 2022 at 6:00 pm

      @Jjjjj I thought that was in a room full of children. I would expect more from adults.

    • Jjjjj

      August 31, 2022 at 6:07 pm

      @Technolus Considering how vague and meaningless this presentation is I was surprised too. As an adult you do need to conform to an extent when doing public speaking. It’s why you go in for job interviews presenting yourself a certain way to “sell” yourself. It’s just how it is. It’s not about muting your self expression. it’s showing that you’re capable of reading a room which this person clearly lacks.

    • Technolus

      September 2, 2022 at 5:55 pm

      @Micaela Mantegna 😅 I’m passionate about the topic.
      I use vrchat a lot. From a graphics standpoint it’s way ahead of the competition.
      Recently they made a change that many thousands of users were against. Many of us looked for alternatives, but they are not as developed (worse fbt tracking, low quantity of users and user produced content, lack of support for android/quest). Many people returned to vrchat despite being dissatisfied, which shows the power of these companies to keep people in their platforms despite dissatisfaction.
      Open standards, self data ownership and interoperability are crucial to keep these platforms serving the community, rather than exploiting the community.
      Btw, I find your dressing style choice to be quite on point to represent some of the stylistic and cultural freedom of the metaverse, and how it expands horizons and can translate into increased openness and acceptance of ourselves and others.

    • Jjjjj

      September 3, 2022 at 12:35 am

      @Micaela Mantegna lol I heard what you said. It just wasn’t something that resonated with me because of how vague it was. good try conflating my criticisms with how u dress towards how I feel about the words you were saying tho.

    • Jjjjj

      September 3, 2022 at 12:41 am

      @Technolus stop simping for this pawn lmao look at the like to dislike ratio on this video.

    • Technolus

      September 3, 2022 at 12:11 pm

      @Jjjjj lol grow up. Look at you, say you listen but still think this in favor of a company, finger-point as pawn but advocates conformity, claim meaninglessness but criticize style before substance, claim vagueness but is yet to say anything about the content other than “it’s vague”.

    • Technolus

      September 5, 2022 at 11:13 am

      @Jjjjj interoperability of assets, decentralization of data, in the meantime you’re somehow seeing support for facebook when she directly spoke out against surveillance capitalism. All, cause of different hair color and an attempt to make the presentation fun. There’s no lack on meaning in it, there’s just you not grasping the very basics and confounding facebook with virtual reality.

  41. Remy Lebeau

    August 31, 2022 at 3:36 pm

    What a nightmare. Not that she is anywhere near correct, but that she thinks she is solving any real problem. Colonialism on the internet? How delusional can you get? Notice how desperate they are to control the internet? They hate what they can’t control.

  42. Prophet X

    August 31, 2022 at 10:54 pm

    Where’s the love ❤?

  43. Winter

    September 1, 2022 at 1:35 am

    If the metaverse is cigarettes, she represents the colorful packaging that appeals to kids

  44. Spam Mouse

    September 1, 2022 at 10:15 am

    Nice idea but you are not funding nor hosting the Met, he who pay the piper calls the tune.

  45. Steve

    September 1, 2022 at 11:32 am

    The metaverse you’re not going to be able to buy sell or trade without it or take the mark of the beast without it so if you don’t believe me say God if you can hear me please show me that you sent your son to die on the cross for my sin

  46. Steve

    September 1, 2022 at 11:33 am

    This lady definitely sold her soul to the devil she might be a fallen angel for all I know and that might be her real hair

    • Micaela Mantegna

      September 2, 2022 at 5:46 pm

      ** Didn’t sell it, just minted it as NFT **

  47. Steve

    September 1, 2022 at 11:34 am

    She’s selling the end of your life and she’s selling Hellfire don’t buy in once you get on that metaverse which is where Satan’s people are and will be they’re going to torture you they’re going to drive you nuts once you get on there it’ll be okay for a while and then once you get matrixed in you won’t be able to leave

  48. Invox

    September 1, 2022 at 9:14 pm

    I’m a simple man: I see “Metaverse”, I hit Dislike.

  49. cat server

    September 2, 2022 at 2:56 am

    Let’s just hire her to run it. Closest I’ve seen of someone who knows what’s even going on.

    • EagleRay

      September 2, 2022 at 11:58 am

      I don’t think she has the technical abilities, she can’t code as far as I know.

    • Felipe Marcassa

      September 3, 2022 at 8:27 pm

      what are you talking about? The point of the metaverse is that it’s decentralized…. theres no one running “it”

  50. Salem Black

    September 2, 2022 at 6:09 am

    Good Idea: keeping a work-life balance while also limiting technology so you don’t miss out on life and loved ones unless you have to rely on technology to be in contact with life and loved ones then obviously that main statement isn’t for you
    Bad Idea: being on call for work for 24/7 because you have the VR goggles that would put you into a meeting space of whatever work job place that you would have giving you less personal time whereas people hardly have personal time as it is and additionally a way for them to passively report and monitor your home because, the goggles have hella cameras on it to map out the entire environment of where you are. The thing is, I can’t be nor can my group of friends be the only people that will say a random consumer product like tampons or chips or hats, anything and then the next thing you know on Google on Amazon on YouTube on Instagram on Etsy all of a sudden you will get advertisements for exactly what you had previously mentioned either hours before or sometimes a couple of days it depends but, in addition to that, I thought I felt kind of gasoline when ideas of mine would all of a sudden appear either online or in some sort of hire media way like movie or television or anything it can like I don’t necessarily think like a normal person because I don’t have social media outside of YouTube and Reddit only for when I have questions but I also obviously use Google but again all of my friends have experienced this I’ve experienced it for a long time and it made me feel really weird and it made me feel like I couldn’t talk about it but I very much think that they’re listening not to necessarily get anyone in trouble but to get ideas from people because it seems like the creators of Hollywood have kind of gone a bit stale through no fault of their own obviously everyone creative hits a dry patch but I legitimately think that a lot of studios by information from Facebook or Google or YouTube or whatever and probably puts it through some software takes notes of what it thinks and hears what people want or are thinking or their ideas and section it off and just hand it off to the people running the programs using the data that is constantly breached on the majority of the apps that we use. If I need to be the first person to say it then I’ll be the first person to say it but we legitimately need a technology life balance like, it’s not bad to check Facebook or be on your phone or something like that but like if you’re spending more than half the day I mean even if you’re spending a quarter of the day that’s too much. Again, like stated above, if it’s your only means of communication because of let’s say a disability or something like that, obviously this isn’t directed towards your demographic but I’m directing this to the demographic of people who have children of people who have partners that they live with and they see on a daily basis and I say that for the people that go to work and such and to be honest again I understand that sometimes work is the last place a lot of people want to be so that’s how they cope again, if you need technology in a certain way, go for it but there are perfectly normal people out there that are really addicted to their phones and I really only go on to my phone at night which I know that that’s a very hypocritical statement because you’re not supposed to be on your phone at night but I unfortunately have health issues and I can’t control when I’m able to sleep. It’s like a lack of circadian rhythm. So I will pop on at night and write a couple of things and then I’ll try to relax and eventually fall asleep but I know when I would hang out with my friends it would bother me because seven times in 5 minutes or less people will have been on their phone or have checked their phone and put it back or be texting and again, I’m not a crazy person, if it’s something necessary that they need to get back to that’s literally why cell phones came to be in the first place is because they wanted to smush everything that they could together so you didn’t have to carry around a Walkman and a calculator and a camera and a video camera and a pager and a mobile phone all at once. People were getting really tired of it and So eventually smartphones became a thing but now because of people who are skeezy we are having our information constantly hacked and used either to put us on unnecessary watch list or like how they’re starting to do in some states they’re doing extensive internet history checks on people who are moving into apartments or trying to rent housing and the landlord can like kick you out if she finds out you have a foot fetish and it offends her Christian ways. The thing is, technology is great and all but it has already been out of control since the mid 1900s when the first voice commanded computer debuted and I think 1952 when did the first computer that could recognize speech was invented. But. Like. Think about it for 5 seconds, there’s a lot of corrupt people in our government. Do you think people who make millions and billions a year give a single crap about you when the people that we elect to give a crap about us don’t give a crap about us? That’s kind of where I’m at is there’s a lot of faceless people behind these companies that are selling to other companies or other countries just so that they can take advantage of our intellectual rights and take advantage of our wants. Like, if you don’t think technology is listening to you and you have an Alexa and you literally turn around and say hey Alexa guess what, it’s been listening to you the entire time waiting for you to address it. It is literally a robot butler, to be honest it wouldn’t be hard for the developers to make it so Alexa would chime in every once in a while if someone around her says something wrong and she fact checks it and says oh no the capital of Vermont isn’t in Burlington it’s in Montpelier. Like, it would be pretty easy for them to just make a mode where Alexa would just be an extra house gas trapped in a little bottle speaker looking thing. But, obviously it’s how you use it that counts so I really do hope that there are good people out there that’s not going to take advantage of how vulnerable this influx of new technology will make us but, hopefully people can have a little bit more decency because I can only imagine what goes on behind the scenes. Actually, there’s a vice documentary episode behind the mask or something akin to that where it’s what a Facebook monitor has to go through in a day or in their job or whatever but I’m going to be watching that soon and so that’s just going to deepen my knowledge that everything you do online can be absolutely traced back to you so be careful of where you go kiddos

  51. Ana Mouchette

    September 2, 2022 at 10:30 am

    this is too cut, every sentence should be expanded on

    • Micaela Mantegna

      September 2, 2022 at 2:57 pm

      Hi Ana! I wrote an article doing exactly that, you can find it in Medium / Abogamer. Have a great day!

  52. Andrew H

    September 2, 2022 at 1:00 pm

    _”We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate…”_
    *― Henry David Thoreau, Walden*

  53. WiII

    September 2, 2022 at 11:58 pm

    With the world run by corporate psychopaths nothing profitable can be trusted.

  54. Mister_Whiskers

    September 3, 2022 at 3:54 am

    “How To Get Green Algae Out Of Yer Hair?” … Anyone? … Anyone?

  55. real Jx3

    September 3, 2022 at 11:28 pm

    Fighting windmills, that’s how it ends up 99% of the time.Why? If it’s impossible to address individual problems, something else might be wrong, causing it.
    The world is about values and materialism is a bit overrated nowadays, or a lot in some cases.
    Anyway, the metaverse is about virtual lives, real lives. You got artificial brains and bodies in the real world and then you got virtual lives inside a computer. Both areas are good business. Immortality and fewer limits. it’s not really about the internet.
    The trick with escaping materialism, shifting values while keeping productivity at reasonable levels.
    Everyone is trying to address symptoms, not the disease and it doesn’t quite work.

  56. Manisha Verma

    September 5, 2022 at 10:14 am

    Roblox Corporation is focused on building a creator economy Metaverse while offering an open gaming platform to let players create their own digital and interactive worlds.

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