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Ball was the worldwide head of strategy at Amazon Studios from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that, he worked as an executive at Accenture Strategy and a director at Otter Media, a digital media investment firm established by Peter Chernin, a longtime Newscorp COO, and CEO of 20th Century Fox.

He served as a full-time forest firefighter for the Canadian Ministry of Natural Resources in the 2000s and represented the Canadian Coast Guard in the issuance of boating permits. Ball has been featured in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Washington Post, Vice, The Verge, CNN, CNBC, Financial Times, BBC, Globe and Mail, and other media.

Ball maintains bylines at The New York Times, The Economist, and Bloomberg. The technology revolution that will disrupt almost every industry, transform our global economy, and fundamentally alter human civilization is explained in detail by Ball.

Matthew Ball and his widely read Metaverse Primer have been no one's voice has been more prominent, influential, and applauded as the phrase and concept of the metaverse have exploded into public knowledge just in the last year. Author Neal Stephenson first used the word "metaverse" in 1992, building on decades of preceding science fiction literature.

Nearly 30 years later, the metaverse—the mobile internet's replacement—has emerged as the major battlefield in Big Tech, most notably as a result of Mark Zuckerberg's declaration that Facebook will become a "metaverse firm" and take the moniker Meta going forward.

The creator of Nvidia, which is among the ten largest public firms in the world by market capitalization, Jensen Huang, thinks that eventually, the economy of the metaverse would surpass that of the actual world.

"If one central firm wins control of [the metaverse], they will become more powerful than any government and be a God on Earth," said Tim Sweeney of Epic Games, the company that created Fortnite.

Ball elaborates on his Primer in THE METAVERSE: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything to explain why the development of the permanent, virtual environment known as the metaverse is worth billions of dollars.

Ball gives the conclusive explanation of the much-contested idea, explains how the metaverse will be realized, and discusses what it will imply for a variety of businesses, including sex work, the automobile, healthcare, and educational sectors.

THE METAVERSE also discusses the different conflicts and wars that will be fought over the metaverse, as well as how independent users, creators, and voters may influence its growth. In a book that will be compared to contemporary touchstones The Second Machine Age and Superintelligence, Ball expertly depicts the promise and danger of the future internet.