An interview with Philip Rosedale, who launched the online world Second Life in 2003 and says his vision predates Neal Stephenson’s 1992 coinage of “metaverse” (Simon Parkin/The Guardian)

Simon Parkin / The Guardian:
An interview with Philip Rosedale, who launched the online world Second Life in 2003 and says his vision predates Neal Stephenson’s 1992 coinage of “metaverse”  —  Mark Zuckerberg’s grand vision for an online existence has been laughed off as a corporate folly.