This is a semi-regular update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.

Current book word count: 147,130

Writing

49 of 75 chapters are ready for editing. That may not sound like good progress from the 41 chapters I reported two weeks ago, but I’m very happy with it. The last chapters were all chapters in the section about how mobile phones and other physical tokens created new interfaces into virtuality. And to be honest, I wasn’t really happy with the chapters before the edit. Now they neatly flow together with the previous section on Web 2.0. But it was a lot of work, I essentially reordered and rewrote the whole thing.

Maybe not the whole thing, but a lot.

I’m also not done yet. There are two chapters still open in this section and then it’s good enough to be left alone for now. However, I predict that I might need another pass to be entirely happy.

Next up after that is the section about tokenization, including crypto, Web3 and decentralized metaverse platforms. I already spent a lot of time on those, so I know they are in a good shape, so progress should be swift again soon.

Talking

There are still some interviews that I haven’t transcribed. Bad. But I really want to finish up the book before I continue working on those. Please be patient.