Ye Xia
Building Web 3.0 can be hard and making it healthy and essentially beneficial to human beings is even harder.
We all assume it will still take decades for human common life to be transformed into an immersive, 3D-information-based virtual life. The singularity will be when the value we produce virtually surpasses the value we created in real life. Before that singularity day comes, we'd better identify those insidious potentials in advance.
I hope our future generations can interact, co-create, and exist without fear of cyber hate and toxic behaviour through virtual technologies built with integrity, safety, care for privacy, distributed value, and inclusion at their foundation.
As we have extended ability in virtual worlds, what if we empower users with superpower so everyone can be superhero to fight back to cyber crime & offense with “Decentralized Violence”?
WHAT: MCT (“METAHERO CERTIFICATION TEST”) is an onboarding process to help ready-to-be superheroes to master a set of virtual interpersonal superpowers triggered by hand gestures.
WHEN&WHERE: In a social Metaverse, 2040
WHY:
- Speculation instead of pragmatic troubleshooting
- To question the status quo where committing cyber-offence costs almost nothing and to unfold an alternative future narrative where users hold the right to implement radical penalties to moderate trolls/cyber-offence, harassment and other toxic behaviours, which is technically possible but ethically less plausible and preferable.
- To unveil how virtual damage can be insidiously translated into physical damage via a simple VR headset. e.g. Dazzle brought by flashing light, GPU overload by spawning grass and dizziness brought by deliberate locomotion glitching etc.