A pair of digital, artificially intelligent beings from the year 2042, who look like multicoloured bunnies, have travelled back in time to set up a shop on Little Collins St, selling digital consumer goods. | NickdMiller
Just when you thought this whole metaverse craze was already verging on the absurd, there has been a major development.
There’s a vault where you can store memories away from metaverse hackers. There’s even an injectable ego-death, which is as full-on as it sounds. Reeves says they felt a responsibility as artists to ask questions – ethical questions – about the direction that technology is taking us.“How do we make it safe? How do we make it secure for people? But also we’re saying, how do you make it kind, and how do you make it beautiful?”
Reeves happily acknowledges their influences. She says the more the merrier in this conversation about where we may be heading.“There’s a push to not have big tech controlling Web 3.0 [a hypothetical future for the internet], like a Meta, like an Apple, and that’s the conversation we’re having now,But the pair say we should start thinking now about what we’re building – “before it becomes a runaway train,” says Salama.