Polybiusverse Quotes

“There is a constant interaction and overlap between the physical, virtual, augmented, and mixed worlds.”
― Simone Puorto

“The metaverse is not something to believe in. It’s not a religion; it’s simply a tool. I don’t “believe” in my refrigerator. I use it when I want a cold soda.”
― Simone Puorto

“What Zuckerberg has in mind for Horizon is a dystopian advertising nightmare.”
― Simone Puorto

“The purchase in the metaverses is instantaneous. You don't need to open an app or touch your smartphone. Goods / services can be purchased and prices compared through a single account linked to a single wallet.”
― Simone Puorto

“VR headsets can collect more and richer data about users than traditional screens. Companies, therefore, can better profile and provide personalized advertising.”
― Simone Puorto

“Most headsets can track hand movements, the space around you and the movements. They collect data on what surrounds you, the objects in the house, the people around you, etc. 20 minutes in VR collect 2 million data.”
― Simone Puorto

“On Booking.com or Amazon, we can add a room or an item to our cart and buy it later, while the metaverse creates a sense of urgency and scarcity.”
― Simone Puorto

“Metaverse Hype? Not sure. From the ashes of the dot-com bubble, the global e-commerce market has risen, worth five trillion dollars (as of 2021).”
― Simone Puorto

“Mio figlio può giocare a Roblox con un amico che si trova in Australia e, il giorno dopo, tirare due tiri al pallone con il vicino di casa. Per lui, sul piano della realtà, le due esperienze hanno lo stesso valore”
― Simone Puorto

“Il tratto centrale dell’essere umano è quello di innovare, di conoscere, di scoprire, di ribellarsi allo Status Quo. Alcune persone sono contente di credere che le ombre proiettate nella caverna di Platone siano la realtà, ma credo sia nostro dovere deontologico ed etico risvegliarle da questo tecno-torpore.”
― Simone Puorto

“We need a new tech-agnostic mindset if we don't want to be kept hostage of a dystopian, advertising-fueled XR nightmare.”
― Simone Puorto

“Most metaverses provide immersive and fun experiences, but they also prevent users from escaping. They're 3D gilded cages, intentionally built to lock users in.”
― Simone Puorto

“Interoperability may not be a technical metaverse requirement per se, but it should be. OMA3, O3DF, MSF, etc, are doing a great job in discussing standards, however, we still haven't fixed some of the Web 2.0 interoperability issues (your iMessage app is pretty useless on an android phone), let alone metaverse's.”
― Simone Puorto

“Metaverse interoperability s a nuanced concept, and to a certain extent, we don't even need full interoperability. We may be ok with not being able to wear our Chewbacca skins during the virtual Monday meeting with our boss, but when it comes to metaverse interoperability, that's where I draw the line.”
― Simone Puorto

“I am not a big fan of the term "metaverse". As probably everybody knows by now, the word comes from a dystopian cyberpunk novel filled with Mafia, drug dealers, mercenaries, and economic collapse. Not really the rainbows, butterflies, and unicorns virtual world narrative some anarcho-capitalists are trying to feed us.”
― Simone Puorto

“Most of what we call "the metaverse" has been around for quite a long time.

"Metaverse" is just a label we put on different technologies that pre-date Zuckerberg's version of the story.”
― Simone Puorto

“What the metaverse did (or, more likely, will do) is to create a confluence of these technologies by building a new version of what we currently call "the Internet."

I like to compare the metaverse to the first iPhone. If you think about it, nothing was really innovative about Steve Jobs's creation. The genius idea was to place existing and mainstream adopted technologies (digital cameras, iPods, desktop-like web experience. etc.) in one single lightweight, handheld device.”
― Simone Puorto

“To build a sustainable metaverse, we should focus a little less on realism and immersivity and more on decentralization and value creation/disintermediation. Otherwise, the metaverse will be nothing else than "The Sims" on steroids. Still pretty cool, but pretty useless as well.”
― Simone Puorto

“Credo che il tratto centrale dell’essere umano sia quello di innovare, di conoscere, di scoprire, di ribellarsi allo Status Quo. L'umanità nasce con il peccato originale. Prima di mangiare dall'albero della conoscenza eravamo semplicemente schiavi. Purtroppo, sembra che invece verso il superuomo Nietzschiano, stiamo tornando verso quei tempi bui. Alcuni imprenditori sono contenti di credere alle ombre della caverna di Platone, ma credo sia nostro dovere deontologico ed etico risvegliarle da questo tecno-torpore, anche se significa andare controcorrente.”
― Simone Puorto

“Io sono un Miltoniano: meglio regnare in un Inferno di tecnoilluminati che servire in un paradiso di tecnoluddisti.”
― Simone Puorto

“Ricordi il volto della cassiera che ha scansionato i codici a barre della spesa che hai fatto al supermarket due settimane fa? No. E sai perché? Perché quello è un lavoro antiumano. Non evolveremo mai come specie fino a quando avremo i cassieri. Stessa cosa nel compartimento turistico. L’high-tech è percepita esattamente come l’opposto dell’high-touch ed è associata a un servizio inferiore. In realtà, Google offre spesso traduzioni molto più accurate della maggior parte dei camerieri stagionali sottopagati nei nostri ristoranti (e anche di molti nostri politici).”
― Simone Puorto

“Metaverse” is just an umbrella term for technologies that have been around for a long time.”
― Simone Puorto

“The term «metaverse» is just a new, cooler name for what we know as «the Internet.»”
― Simone Puorto

“Yesterday we used to book on paper catalogs. Today we do it on Booking.com, and tomorrow we’ll use Decentraland.

The Metaverse is not changing how we book or experience hotels and travel; it is simply changing the medium through which we do it.

It is like saying that since we switched from booking from telephone to email, we have dematerialized travel. It’s pure nonsense.”
― Simone Puorto

“Any bad news for Zuckerberg’s Metaverse is pretty good news for the Metaverse.”
― Simone Puorto

“Once you get kicked out from a centralized metaverse, it’s all gone. That would just be Web2 on steroids.”
― Simone Puorto

“It is unlikely that there will be only one Metaverse, and it is more probable that there will be several specialized one, such as one for work, one for socializing with friends, one for dating, and more. As long as interoperability is guaranteed, I am pretty ok with that.”
― Simone Puorto

“DAOs can be the perfect solution to some of the pressing destination management problems we have today – for example, using NFTs to let different hospitality stakeholders decide how to run a populous tourism destination like Venice or Amsterdam more efficiently. You’re replacing the need for trust with cryptographic truth. It’s e-Democracy.”
― Simone Puorto

“Roblox has 50 million daily users, including many young people who may not be able to book a hotel room themselves (yet) but who can influence their parents’ travel decisions.”
― Simone Puorto

“At least for now, we should see the metaverse as a means rather than an end: To paraphrase Milton: "Better to advertise in Hell than to build in Heaven.”
― Simone Puorto