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Last shown on Channel 4 in August 2006
Imagine a world where you can choose what you look like when you are born, where you can change sex on a whim, where you can soar through the skies at will.
Imagine being able to see inside someone else's dream – and earning $200,000 a year while you do it.
This is the metaverse, a place where class, gender and geography are meaningless. But who are the men and women who inhabit this brave new world? And are they the new prophets leading us all towards a virtual utopia – or just dreamers playing Matrix games.
Imagine a world where you can choose what you look like when you are born, where you can change sex on a whim, where you can soar through the skies at will.
Imagine being able to see inside someone else's dream – and earning $200,000 a year while you do it.
This is the metaverse, a place where class, gender and geography are meaningless. But who are the men and women who inhabit this brave new world? And are they the new prophets leading us all towards a virtual utopia – or just dreamers playing Matrix games.
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