LISI LINARES Podcast Interview

Ashley Coffey42min

Ashley Coffey

00:00

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Coffee and code. I'm your host, Ashley Coffey. And today I'm excited to have LISI linearis on the show with us today talking about the metaverse. Lisi is a publicist to some of the biggest names and XR, a CBS survivor Castaway femme futures chair, a proud member of xr women, and all around creative futurist. I'm so excited to have LISI on the show with us today to talk about the metaverse and just how exciting this world is. But before we dive in, Lisi, do you want to tell us a little bit about yourself? And how you got here?

LISI LINARES⚡️

00:40

Um, yeah, I certainly will. That's always a loaded question. And I have so many different ways to answer that. But I've gotten better and better because I have to answer it a lot more than I care to answer it. But um, um, I got here, like a lot of stuff in life that's interesting, by luck. And by love is really the best way to put it I've been in love with, with cool technologies for as long as I could remember. And I'm combining it with entertainment, combining it creatively. And to get a community is really, really exciting. So I got here because I got lucky. I'm in love with the tech and there's a beautiful community involved with everything that's happening right

Ashley Coffey

01:32

now. Absolutely. I agree. And it's interesting to see the explosion of the space just in the past few years. I definitely think COVID accelerated our timeline of jumping into this this Metaverse, which I think is a good segue for us to just dive into this conversation. But for those who are listening, and maybe don't know about the metaverse, can you take some time to kind of describe briefly what it is and why people should care about it?

LISI LINARES⚡️

02:00

Well, you know, it doesn't matter whether you care about it or not, it's here. And you know, it's just the next step and how we communicate, and the next level of what would be an internet interaction. So clearly, you know, we've gone past the, you know, selfies and the profile pics that are either a cartoon character or whatever you want it to be like, where do you go from there? Okay, well, clearly something that's animated. Okay, so a lot of the stuff that's happening in the metaverse is not, you know, hokey, pokey stuff. It's literally just the next where do you go next? It's like when movies went from black and white, or silent to talkies and color, like, naturally, there's always going to be a way to take it further. And that's what the metaverse is. It's the internet just taken further. So what happens? We start to communicate deeper. And we have financial ties, and we have more communities. And, you know, again, I have to go back to further earlier technologies because the, the, it's all there. So yeah, going back to the metaverse and why you should care. It doesn't even matter. It doesn't matter if you care or not, you know, it's going to be part of your world. It's like, you never wanted to have a Facebook account and you got a Facebook account, or you never wanted to go online and you know, you order your stuff on Amazon like it's it's an inevitable it's like Andy Warhol is plastic inevitable. The Metaverse is an inevitable,

Ashley Coffey

03:38

agreed agreed. And I've seen people kind of compare this time that we're in right now. To the area where the iPhone first came on the scene, the smartphone, right, it really changed the way that we communicate with one another and created our first digital footprint of social platforms just a different way to connect. And what's really exciting to me is that so many companies are starting to buy into this as well. I mean, we've seen Gucci, so many other companies really start to create digital shopping platforms as a means for people to connect and learn about new products and be able to connect with a brand in a way that I think people are still understanding. Rather than going into a physical store, you're going into a virtual space, you're maybe interacting with clothing or interacting with music or shapes. It's just it's a new way of expressing yourself. I think that that I think that will drive another generation of creativity as we kind of recover from the pandemic and see what those next chapters are in this emerging tech realm.

LISI LINARES⚡️

04:50

Yeah, you know, it's all connected with you know, what the internet is and how it came to be. And you know, I love to go back even further and kind of Look at this time, like, you know, where were people when the first phonograph made its appearance, the first telephone, like when the first light bulb showed up in town, like, you know, even even the beginning of cinema itself, like that kind of paradigm shifting technology is, you know, everything that we're experiencing now. And there's going to be people that are yea, you know, building it, and this is the new world. And this is how we level up humanity and communication and blah, blah, blah. And then there's people that are like, Oh, hell, no, I don't even know what that is. I want anything to do with that is really freaky. I mean, like, you found those people all through the story, the first people that didn't want a phone to begin with, oh, I don't want to have that. It's like an electric leash. You know, where are those people? Now? They've got phones.

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