Forthcoming (2025)

A great game is on between the world’s richest, most powerful corporations to create the next version of the internet – a fully immersive virtual world that will be built within our lifetimes. Who owns it will determine the future.

It’s called the metaverse – a digital mirror world of our own, or an infinite extension of it, where we will live, work, and play.

The idea is taken from science fiction, but it’s becoming technological fact, as fast as its proponents can make it happen.

But which particular corporation runs the metaverse is less important than the likelihood that government and the public won’t have much say in how it operates and whose interests it serves.

It’s the ultimate platform, the ultimate marketplace – and, these corporations hope, the ultimate monopoly.

Unless we find a way to take back the future for ourselves…