The Why Files
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Joseph Matheny - The Man Who Hacked Reality Before the Internet Existed | The Basement Trailer
Watch the Joseph Matheny podcast NOW by joining The Why Files Patreon!: https://www.patreon.com/thewhyfiles Joseph Matheny invented something in 1989 that nobody had a name for yet. He called it a story. The internet called it the first alternate reality game. The Navy called him to ask how he did it. He turned them down. Tonight he's in the basement explaining how he built an early AI, game-mastered Robert Anton Wilson at Esalen, and why QAnon looks so familiar to him. Some things are better...
