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, 2022

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.