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元世界（上）
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do you remember the information superhighway?in the early 1990s pundits predicted that high-speed data networks would soon connect millions of people, letting them exchange information and linking them to “movies and television shows, shopping services, electronic mail and huge collections of data”, as the new york times put it.yet today millions use netflix and amazon, gmail and wikipedia, and no one talks of “cruising the information superhighway”—or ever did.the vision was prescient, but the jargon died.something similar may now be happening with the term “metaverse”.it is also the subject of feverish speculation—this time about the possibilities of 3d virtual worlds, and a sense that video-game technology and online communication are converging in interesting ways.but its definition is elusive, and none of the multitudes who congregate in virtual worlds today, such as players of the game “fortnite”, actually use the word.
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你还记住信息高速公路吗？上世纪90年代初，专家们猜测，高速数据网络会很快将数百万人联接起来，让他们交流信息，并变成我们与《纽约时报》所说的“影片和电视节目、购物效能、电子邮件和海量数据”之间的枢纽。可是，如今数百万人都在运用网飞和亚马逊、谷歌邮箱和维基百科，没有人在谈论“在信息高速公路上星期游”–或许从未谈论过。这一期望是有先见之明的，但这个术语已不复存在了。“元世界”这个术语可以正在阅历类似的作业。这也是我们张狂猜测的主题–这一次是关于3d虚拟世界的可以性，以及一种电子游戏技能和在线交流正在以风趣的方法相交融的感触。但它的界说很难捉摸，而且今日集合在虚拟世界中的大大都人，比方《堡垒之夜》的玩家，其实都不会用这个词。
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it broke into public consciousness in october 2021, when facebook renamed itself meta, signalling its ambitions in this new arena.people who had not previously heard the word “metaverse” assumed it was a new facebook product.but the term has been used in tech circles for years, and other companies, including microsoft and roblox, had in fact already staked their own claims to be metaverse merchants.metaverse is a relatively new name for an old idea, explains matthew ball, a technology analyst (and occasional contributor to the economist), in his survey of the topic.the word was coined in 1992 by neal stephenson in his novel “snow crash”.mr ball traces the concept of a parallel, synthetic reality back to “pygmalion’s spectacles”, a short story of 1935 by stanley weinbaum, and later tales by ray bradbury, philip k. di
ck, isaac asimov and william gibson.
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大众初度晓得这个词是在2021年10月份，其时脸书更名为meta，标明晰它在这个新领域的宏愿。早年没传闻过“元世界”这个词的人还认为它是脸书的新产品。但这个术语在科技界现已运用了多年，包括微柔和roblox在内的其他公司实践上现已声称自个是元世界商家。科技分析师马修·鲍尔(偶尔为《经济学人》撰稿)在他对这个论题的概述中说明说，元世界是一个老主意的相对较新的名字。这个词创造于尼尔·斯蒂芬森1992年的小说《雪崩》。鲍尔将平行组成实际的概念追溯到斯坦利·温鲍姆1935年的短篇小说《皮格马利翁的眼镜》，以及之后雷·布莱伯利、菲利普·k·迪克、艾萨克·阿西莫夫和威廉·吉布森笔下的故事。
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strikingly, all their synthetic worlds are dystopias—a detail modern tech bosses have failed to notice, or chosen to ignore.mr ball’s summary of the history of virtual worlds, in both fiction and computer science, provides helpful context.but his book’s most valuable contribution may prove to be his definition of the metaverse: an interoperable network of 3d virtual worlds that can be accessed simultaneously by millions of users, who can exert property rights over virtual items.this definition is interesting as much for what it leaves out as for what it includes.it is not simply a rebranding of virtual reality: headsets are optional, and today virtual worlds are mostly accessed using flat screens.nor are blockchains or non-fungible tokens mentioned, though mr ball concedes they may have a role.he insists that, just as there is only one internet, made up of many different networks and services that have more value for being connected, there should be only one metaverse, made up of many virtual worlds.
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引人凝视的是，他们笔下的一切组成世界都是反乌托邦的–现代科技界的老板们没有留心到这一细节，或许选择了无视。鲍尔对小说和核算机科学领域中的虚拟世界史进行了总结，这供给了有用的布景信息。但他这本书最有价值的奉献可所以他对元世界的界说：一个可互操作的3d虚拟世界网络，可供数百万用户一起造访，这些用户可以对虚拟物品德使产权。这个界说很风趣，风趣的点不只在于它省去的信息，相同还在于它包括的信息。这并非只是给虚拟实际换了个名字：我们可以选择要不要戴耳机，而且如今的虚拟世界大多都可以经过平板屏幕进行造访。区块链或非同质代币都没有被提及，尽管鲍尔招认它们可以会发扬作用。他坚持认为，当前世界上只需一个由许多不一样的网络和效能体系构成的互联网，这些联接在一同有更大的价值，相同，世界上也大约只需一个由许多虚拟世界构成的元世界。回来搜狐，查看更多
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