The metaverse may have only recently entered mainstream consciousness, but the concept has been kicking around in tech circles since Neal Stephenson introduced it in his 1992 novel, "Snow Crash." But though Stephenson imagined a network in which people gather in a virtual world via avatars—and Ernest Cline combined that idea with pop culture sensibilities in "Ready Player One"—neither author conceptualized NFTs, the blockchain-based assets that signify a deed of ownership over digital or real-world assets. https://decrypt.co/94413/polygon-metaverse-lead-anything-can-become-nft-will... Not to belabor the obvious but the potential is here for NFT tagging to beat Govt Shitcoins as a dystopian surveillance mechanism. The ' Dossier Society " spread like ' Grey Ooze " nanotechnology.