What's the point of Autonomous World?

The article argues that the "Metaverse problem" has three parts: building concurrency infrastructure, establishing interoperability standards and protocols, and finding a group to onramp first. It proposes that autonomous worlds could host collaborative scientific simulations, such as climate models, as "scientific townsquares" for public examination. The author cites NASA's J-Track Java Applet, which plotted more than 100 satellites on a Mercator map, as an earlier example of the Internet hosting public scientific simulation. The piece also draws on Matthew Ball's definition of the Metaverse and the internet's hourglass architecture.