The metaverse: What it is and what it means for the future of the natural world

For today's episode of Unscripted and Unapologetic, I speak with independent researcher Alison McDowell about The metaverse: What it is and what it means for the future of the natural world.
February 5, 2022Show more

Discussion with Alison McDowell on the Metaverse and the big picture.

1. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1v8n_VJ0fk4TVxi9txMgEAZrfGhW_EBRuMobvskr2FWw/edit?usp=sharing from Alison’s discussion with Jason Bosch https://youtu.be/J_2sBImR9-A “Opportunity Youth: An in-depth follow-up to questioning the Greater Reset III.”
2. Steven T Newcomb “Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Discovery.”
3. https://www.media.mit.edu/research/?filter=everything&tag=politics
4. Every Student Succeeds Act: https://www.ed.gov/essa?src=rn & https://www.everystudentsucceedsact.org/
5. Melanie Swan, founder of Founder of the Institute for Blockchain Studies http://book.itep.ru/depository/blockchain/blockchain-by-melanie-swan.pdf & https://www.blockchainstudies.org/index.html
6. Smart Toilets Data Collection https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/04/smart-toilet-monitors-for-signs-of-disease.html
7. Disruptive Technology https://www.christenseninstitute.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAuvOPBhDXARIsAKzLQ8GJHO0GGQiqH4yutrNboSq0t75-9LiuGPf7JH4xsdNSCnuscFV-fegaAnnDEALw_wcB
8. Blockchain Founders Fund https://blockchainff.com/
9. Shaun Conway of ixo, system of credits, South Africa, https://www.ixo.world/collaborate
10. Enigma Protocols https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/enigma/overview/
11. Patrick Wood https://muckrack.com/patrick-wood-7 author of Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation
12. West Virginia Gov offers prizes for compliance last Spring https://governor.wv.gov/News/press-releases/2021/Pages/COVID-19-UPDATE-Gov.-Justice-West-Virginia-offering-100-savings-bond-to-residents-age-16-to-35-who-get-vaccinated.aspx
13. Alison’s latest presentation, a wealth of information which can be found at this link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1v8n_VJ0fk4TVxi9txMgEAZrfGhW_EBRuMobvskr2FWw/edit#slide=id.p

Timestamps for YouTube:
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:00 Welcome Alison, basic agenda for discussion
00:07:41 Joe Rogan Clip with Ben Shapiro on Metaverse Fair Use
00:10:00 Joe’s Point
00:10:48 Alison’s thoughts on linking Facebook to the Meta and renaming it,
00:11:30 Difference between virtual reality and mixed reality.
00:12:00 tech growing smaller such as headsets as small as contact lenses
00:12:31 How would mixed reality look to the average person.
00:14:15 Smart toilets, sensors, data collection
00:15:50 Learning Economy Foundation,
00:20:17 NFTs, choice, and augmented reality.
00:23:03 Social Capital
00:27:00 Tokens minted, splinterland, Blockchain Founders Fund, Health Hero,
00:32:00 Interoperability and Digital ID.
00:34:40 Air sensors to detect virus in air?
00:36:05 Jailbreaking the Code of Life. Melanie Swan, nano machines,
00:44:58 E-Government and AI assistants/digital twins. “Radical Democracy.”
00:58:00 Some of the key players carrying the agenda out.
01:04:00 Cognitive Dissonance. The future of computing, AI,
01:08:00 Dispossessed people, social impact markets, ESSA, Pay for Success,
01:13:00 Japan’s Moonshot 2050 for the goal of living without physical body.
01:18:57 Digital labor, dual-use, is crypto really a silent revolution.
01:26:50 Self-Sovereignty contracts with Blockchain technology
01:28:17 Augmented reality, The Enigma Protocols from MIT negates those concepts. Compliance data, IoT sensors to control movements, self-policing
01:22:26 Mormon Transhumanism conference in Utah. Libertarian context.
01:45:00 Judith Rodin, pay for success, circular economy is the circuit. Pay as you go. Patrick Wood on Technocracy
01:53:13 Social Nudges, how to draw people into system through incentives and punishment. Example is WV Gov with vaccine prizes https://governor.wv.gov/News/press-releases/2021/Pages/COVID-19-UPDATE-Gov.-Justice-West-Virginia-offering-100-savings-bond-to-residents-age-16-to-35-who-get-vaccinated.aspx
02:03:00 Freedom or reciprocity?
02:06:51 How would Alison introduce the reality of the Metaverse to a classroom of high school students?
02:24:16 The testing regime
02:29:40 Two-Tier Society, we’re all waiting on the Heroes, the Leaders, to lead us but are the leaders of the resistance really leaders? Steve Kirsch promoting SSRIs and a regimen of “early treatment.” What’s to gain? Are his intentions altruistic?
02:39:00 Operation Collective Strength, then financial war games, happened in December so what comes next?
02:41:28 Wrap up: IoT, IoB, Meta, Spatial Web, Digital Twinning
02:46:25 What progress does Alison foresee this year for the establishment? We can beat this challenge.
02:53:47 The system wants violence. Inspired by India farmer Protests\
03:00:00 Positive, resolved, we cannot fracture under the pressure of whatever they throw our way.