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Here’s everything we published this week.

August 7, 2022

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The Meh-taverse

Evan Armstrong / Napkin Math

This week on Napkin Math, Evan reviews a recently-published book by Matthew Ball that predicts a future where we will work and play in 3d spaces, and the physical world will become increasingly less important to us. The book is intellectually honest about how far off and uncertain this is, but the author also has a “metaverse” ETF, which is kind of weird. Furthermore, there’s a fundamental problem with the metaverse thesis: 3d doesn’t solve a problem that most people have.

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