Name: Adam Curry on the Emergence of the Metaverse
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Adam Curry on the Emergence of the Metaverse' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-01-08. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- So here's my only, this is all I'm working on
because there's a whole slew of young people
who are just opting out and they're moving
to building parallel systems, parallel networks,
which is pretty much the only thing you can do.
We have all the technology, everything we need.
My two projects, I bring them together,
brought them together, is podcasting that is protected
and Bitcoin.
And I'm just on the Bitcoin train
because I believe that my money is safer there.
I'm not talking about versus the U.S. dollar,
just in general, and I think that that does,
I think that we will see that in our future
as very protective for everything.
As they say, Bitcoin fixes this.
If you can fix the money, that's the broken part.
The money system is broken.
It causes the inflation, it causes the misery,
it causes wars because it's linked to the, to oil.
So we have to go protect all that shit.
It's fucked up.
The dollar, I love America.
We used to have our own, the banks would create dollars.
They were promissory notes until this Federal Reserve Act
came into play.
It was a takeover.
That's what Kennedy was talking about.
The power that is unspoken by man.
It's, it's this banking system.
We're, if we continue to be in that, we're just fucked.
Yeah.
And I have a lot of hope for cryptocurrencies.
I really do.
I don't know too much about them,
but Bitcoin seems to be the one in the Ethereum,
the ones that the people who are in the know
talk about the most.
And my point is that what we're seeing right now,
it's either going to go one way or the other.
It's either going to fall apart completely,
or we're going to use this as an opportunity to right the ship
and come up with a better way to live our lives.
It's one, it's going to be one of the other.
The fun, the fundamental difference,
just so I say it, because otherwise people beat me up.
The difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum is Bitcoin.
There will only be 21 million.
It cannot be changed.
It cannot be inflated.
You cannot say the same for Ethereum.
Oh, that's, that's the main difference.
Also, there's no CEO of, of Bitcoin.
Oh, the CEO of Ethereum.
Well, there's, there's, if you look at the history of it,
- Eventually it's going to be king of the metaverse,
and that's going to be a problem.
- Well, you know, it's interesting.
I love NFTs.
I've never done one.
I'm not interested in it,
but you kind of know how that works where, you know.
- There's one from Beeple.
- Well, there you go.
- Yeah.
- This is fulfilling Klaus Schwab's dream.
- Is it?
- Yes.
You will own nothing and you will be happy.
So you get an NFT, I own nothing.
- You don't know nothing.
- And I'm fucking happy.
- And everything you own, plus you own an NFT.
It doesn't take away all your stuff.
- No, you don't own it.
You don't own it.
It's, it's beautiful.
I love it.
It's like baseball cards.
Only, you know, more crazy.
- Well, but you do.
Cause it's a non fungible token, Adam.
- I know it is.
- I understand it.
- Yeah, no, no.
- That's my thing now.
I'm just gonna pretend.
- Now, a buddy of mine, you know,
these entertainment companies, they're doing so much money
in these NFTs on, you know, their intellectual property
that they already have.
You know, just even, what was it, Brian Cox?
You know, the guy from.
- Sure.
- Yeah, he's doing an NFT.
- He is?
- I'm not allowed to say what it is, but yeah.
- Interesting.
- Lamborghini just announced this yesterday.
- What?
- The thing is making an NFT, the physical company.
- Why not?
Get those dummies to buy it.
- Yeah.
Well now, in the dream of the metaverse,
the Silicon Valley controlled metaverse,
NFT is gonna be very, very important.
They'll all be with their own shit coin, you know,
they'll be like whatever the meta coin will be.
And then you have really more the Ethereum crowd
who are building their own decentralized metaverse.
But there when you, you know, you have a cool outfit
that is one of a kind and you can trade it with someone
and you know, you do that through an NFT.
That's a very valid reason if you're into that.
- Do you think the future will be companies will come up
with a coin and then you'll have to purchase
the company's products with that coin?
Let's say if Apple came up with its own coin,
they seem to be one of the few companies
that could easily do that, right?
If they decided to have an Apple coin and you'd buy
all Apple products with an Apple, with Apple phones,
Apple iMacs, and you just invest in,
wait, wait a minute, no, hold please.
- I'm gonna tell you what it is.
- Hold please, let me finish.
You let people invest in being a part of the company.
So you buy coins and through those coins,
you can buy products and you can invest a certain amount
and the coins go up, you actually make money,
the coins go down, you lose money.
And as the company keeps doing better,
it's almost like another version of stocks or something.
And you buy it all through that.
Is that possible?
- Possible. - Now that you heard me
all the way through.
- Sorry, it's a very bad habit I have.
- No, that's okay.
You're just excited to talk.
- I'm a fucking know-it-all.
I'm very excited about it. - No, you're smart as fuck.
You're excited to talk.
- No, I'm irritated by myself.
- I'm not, I'm not irritated by you.
Don't worry about it.
- That's kind of what Facebook wanted.
- Really?
- Yeah, Facebook had the Libra and it was all set up
and then the US government intervened and said,
fuck no, because that would become,
that could easily become the default currency overnight.
- Facebook had money.
- Facebook does all this local commerce.
They own the classified market.
They own the real economy.
You know, the small mom and pops, they own that shit,
which is why everyone hates them,
especially the news people,
because they're taking their salaries.
They're taking their fucking money away.
Newspapers, oh my God.
Now, anyway, that's not the plan.
The plan is the central bank digital currency.
You will have crypto.
You will have a digital wallet.
It will be directly from the Federal Reserve to you.
- Oh.
- And there'll be no, little retail banking
that just won't happen anymore.
- All online?
- Oh, of course.
- No more brick and mortar in 50 years?
- I mean, no, no, you just use it like you use Venmo now.
Use the same way,
only you'd be connected to the Federal Reserve,
to the central bank.
Now, you've been completely morphed into
where they want you to be,
'cause then they fully control you.
- Right, but do you think they'll be retail stores?
You think they'll be retail, right?
- Well, if you believe in the metaverse
that Neil Stevenson wrote about in "Snow Crash,"
which I read, actually I had metaverse.com
for a long, long time.
- Is that, "Snow Crash," that's not that film.
- Isn't there a film called "Snow Crash"?
- "Snow Piercer."
- No, no, no, "Snow Crash" don't think it's ever been.
I would hate for it to be film.
The only thing left in meat space,
once we live in the metaverse,
yep, is Domino's pizza delivery and FedEx and hoverboards.
That's all that's left.
- In that order?
- Pretty much.
- In the meat space, I love that too.
- Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
- The meat space.
- Yeah, but you know, I think there's a real possibility
that, how about this, just for a scenario?
You know, you're already in the gaming world.
You kind of love it.
You know, you got the goggles on.
It's augmented reality.
It's virtual reality.
Now maybe I can get a gig.
You know, maybe I can put on a glove and do this
and operate a robot, you know, remotely in a factory somewhere.
Or maybe I can train artificial intelligence,
basically training to get rid of me.
You know, these are all things that I believe
is where Silicon Valley wants to take us.
- Could you imagine if that was a thing
where you got a job in the metaverse
and through the metaverse,
you were making things at a factory in a real place?
- Oh, that's going to happen.
Oh, for sure.
Come on, man, Elon's already jacking into your brain.
Of course this is gonna happen.
This is transhumanism.
This is truly what one of the big agendas is.
It will integrate people with technology.