A Metaverse That Matters
Our Vision…
History is an important part of the future, it’s the record we reference to know where we’ve been as a species, celebrate accomplishments, and hopefully avoid repeating mistakes.
For much of our history — it’s been written by the so called “victors”, often a single sided account of who, what, when, why, and how. Lost in that homogenized point of view are the myriad of unique perspectives that were present.
Often there was an enormous expense to maintaining memories and history — either literally through committing it to memory by the tribes story tellers, or later through hand written accounts which took time and skills not available to all.
For most of the 20th century we captured our significant moments as photos with film and processing costs limiting their use. We stored them in albums, sometimes with dates or inscriptions, almost always without real context.
As technology progressed we started storing images and video digitally, which has reduced the capturing cost to almost nothing and the storage to pennies a day.
What’s still lacking, is preservation and context.
On Preservation
Who’s going to pay for your iCloud or Google Photos (or Dropbox, or insert any web 2 storage solution here…) subscription 50 years from now? What if those services are shut down? How will we ensure that all the bits, bytes, ones and zeros are saved?
What about Instagram and Facebook you say? Same story. Too fragile, too prone to change, too centralized. If Meta decides you’ve done something they don’t like — you’re done. The information is gone.
A Little Bit of Context
My wife likes to visit antique stores and sometimes I go with her. One of the things that interests me on those visits are old family photos — often in a jar or clumsily lumped together with postcards.
What’s interesting to me is most of the time it’s not immediately clear why someone took the photo. Sure, there are events like weddings and holidays, but lost are the feelings and reasons someone pulled out a camera (an act far more cumbersome that our phone in pocket action today) snapped the photo, had it processed, and then stored it away until their death.
Tragically all their hard work was unceremoniously cast aside in an estate sale or shipped off to the local thrift store on it’s way to an antique dealer.
What we’ll never know is the who, the why, the where, or the what.
That’s all lost to the sands of time. Despite what Google Photos says, images by themselves, be they analogue or digital, are not “memories”. They are at best a visual prompt that will erode the longer they are not documented.
The Perfect Use Case for Blockchain
What if there was a way to replicate all your memories across thousands and thousands of computers that no single entity controls and is publically accessible?
Blockchain technology is a great way to overcome the historical obstacles to broadly preserving our memories and history. It’s decentralized so no single entity gets to control the “victors narrative”, publically accessible, and available to anyone.
What’s Still Lacking is Our Motivation 🤦♂️
Although we now have the technology to support memory preservation — we still need the day to day motivation to do the actual preserving. It’s at this intersection of motivation and meaning that Metablox was created.
What if we combined the attributes of real estate: scarcity, desirability, financial gain with game dynamics and human motivation?
A real life game of monopoly where the board is the places where our lives are lived and powered by the memories we make.
This gamification of life, for the preservation of memories, can be played in a number of ways, but all of them contribute to the mission of preserving our most meaningful memories.
Ways to Play Metablox
- Collect real estate where memories are made
- Make memories that are meaningful
- Collect & Curate Memories
- All of the above
Memories are what power Metablox. More Memories = More Memory Marks = More Valuable Blox.
Memory Marks are how we organize memories that get posted and can be assigned to both Moments and Memories.
What’s a Moment?
Moments are spontaneous vignettes from the day, captured with a single photo, fixed to a location, and captioned in 140 characters or less. A Moment is a low friction way to capture something you want to remember, or be remembered in the future.
A Memory Is…
Memories are a combination of photos and narrative text. Think of it like a blog post about your life, similar to a photo album, but with context and feeling so future observers aren’t left guessing about why it mattered.
They are anchored to places and can be public or private depending on your desires and who owns the blox location.
The Future
As we build out the core functionality for preserving memories and winning at the game of life, we’ve got plans for integrating other digital assets and experiences for the benefit of our community.
We’ll leave those up to your imagination for now, but don’t miss out on the opportunity to get started. The only way to lose at Metablox is by not playing.
We believe in making real life epic and preserving memories of it virtually.
Get Started
Head over to Metablox and save your first Moment or Memory — future generations will thank you.
