Foundations for Grassroots Democratic Metaverse
Computers and Society
2022-04-12 v3 Artificial Intelligence
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Multiagent Systems
Social and Information Networks
Abstract
While the physical lives of many of us are in democracies (one person, one vote - e.g., the EU and the US), our digital lives are mostly in autocracies (one person, all votes - e.g., Facebook). Cryptocurrencies promise liberation but stop short, at plutocracy (one coin, one vote). What would it take for us to live our digital lives in a digital democracy? This paper offers a vision, a theoretical framework, and an architecture for a grassroots network of autonomous, people-owned, people-operated, and people-governed digital communities, namely a grassroots democratic metaverse. It also charts a roadmap towards realizing it, and identifies unexplored territory for further research.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2203.04090,
title = {Foundations for Grassroots Democratic Metaverse},
author = {Ehud Shapiro and Nimrod Talmon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.04090},
year = {2022}
}