Table of Contents
Preface: Welcome to the Dawn of the Virtual Natives vii
Part 1 A Generation Unlike Any Other 1
Chapter 1 Virtual Is the New Digital 3
Chapter 2 What Is Reality, Anyway? 13
Chapter 3 Fluid Identities 25
Chapter 4 Radical Acceptance 39
Chapter 5 Putting on the “Rizz” 53
Chapter 6 From Apprentice to Expert 63
Chapter 7 Create, Consume, and Own 73
Chapter 8 Autonomous Agents 89
Chapter 9 Send Pics 107
Chapter 10 The First Cyborgs 119
Part 2 The Revolution Starts Here 131
Chapter 11 Meet the Degens 133
Chapter 12 You’re Not the Boss of Me 145
Chapter 13 Love, Sex, and Algorithms 157
Chapter 14 Web3 and the Culture 169
Chapter 15 Life Is Games 181
Chapter 16 The Charismatics 191
Chapter 17 Main Character Energy 211
Chapter 18 Future Forward: Virtual Natives and the New Tech Landscape 225
Epilogue: Invisible Architecture 237
Notes 243
Acknowledgments 279
About the Authors 281
Index 283