There are issues of trust with incumbent internet providers, and perhaps the potential for a new form of digital society. Large-scale social and immersive metaverse has low adoption and may not meet societal or business needs. From a business perspective, metaverse is not a good choice for remote collaboration. The term "digital society" may be more relevant and extend to spatial and augmented reality technologies, Web2, digital money, and trust. Investment in the recent Web3 bubble is coming from a curious blend of venture capitalists, and the `Meta', with a focus on distributed financial tooling and digital assets in the metaverse. A global ledger (such as blockchain) may be necessary to create transferable digital goods across society. Crypto has several problems, but its main strength is in creating "money-like networks". It is unclear which technology will succeed, but the tools are available now for integration and testing. Nostr is an exciting new protocol which has the potential to increase confidence in the end points of communication channels, mediate financial transaction, and link communities and virtual spaces. It, like Bitcoin, is opensource, and also likely impossible to censor. New open source tooling from StabilityAI may address issues of accessibility, creativity, language barriers, safeguarding, and governance. Image generation ML may enable the creation of collaborative global networks for virtual production. AI and ML, or "supported creativity" or "augmented intelligence" blur the boundaries between the digital and physical world. Building an inclusive, open, and federated metaverse with transparent governance is a complex challenge, but reasoning and potential solutions are explored in this book, alongside some initial tooling to experiment with.

翻译：当前互联网服务提供商存在信任问题，数字社会或许正孕育新形态。大规模社交与沉浸式元宇宙采用率低，可能无法满足社会或商业需求。从商业角度看，元宇宙并非远程协作的理想选择。"数字社会"这一术语更具关联性，可延伸至空间与增强现实技术、Web2、数字货币及信任领域。近期Web3泡沫中的投资来自风险资本家与"Meta"的奇特组合，重点关注元宇宙中的分布式金融工具与数字资产。实现全社会可转移数字商品可能需要全球账本（如区块链）。加密货币虽存在诸多问题，但其核心优势在于创建"类货币网络"。目前尚不确定哪种技术能够成功，但已有可用于集成和测试的工具。Nostr是一种令人振奋的新协议，具备增强通信端点可信度、促成金融交易、连接社区与虚拟空间的潜力。与比特币一样，该协议开源且几乎无法被审查。StabilityAI的新开源工具或可解决可及性、创造力、语言障碍、安全防护及治理问题。图像生成机器学习可能促成虚拟制作的全球协作网络。人工智能与机器学习（或称"辅助创造力"或"增强智能"）正模糊数字与物理世界的界限。构建包容、开放、联邦化且治理透明的元宇宙是一项复杂挑战，但本书将探讨其逻辑推演与潜在解决方案，并提供初步实验工具。