4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
The Purpose of the Metaverse - The New Market Place
(https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/meet-me-in-my-avatars-office)
(https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/meet-me-in-my-avatars-office)
"Yet IBM envisions many businesses and nonprofits
thriving in virtual worlds. Marketers can use the so-called metaverses to
project a cool image of products, and retail outlets can use them to sell
real-world goods. Lawyers, accountants and real estate agents could also set up
shop in virtual worlds to meet with clients informally."..Read more
(https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/meet-me-in-my-avatars-office)
The above article was printed in 2007. The
meta-(middle)verse (https://www.etymonline.com/word/meta-#etymonline_v_14705)
is not the brainchild of Mark Zuckerberg. It will be where future
business and commerce takes place (for the time being). Brick and mortar
businesses are going to be replaced by virtual shopping places whilst logistics
companies take over all control of the movement of products, think Amazon.
Predictive programming for the idea of the Metaverse began
in 1992, through a novel called Snow Crash, from Wikipedia
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse):-
"The term metaverse was coined in Neal Stephenson's
1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, where humans, as programmable avatars,
interact with each other and software agents, in a three-dimensional virtual
space that uses the metaphor of the real world. Stephenson used the term to
describe a virtual reality-based successor to the internet."
Please take the time to read the following 4 part series entitled The Metaverse Explained
(https://medium.com/@LoupVentures/the-metaverse-explained-part-1-an-inside-look-f6e15696ae0c),
it is very revealing. Part 2 (https://loupfunds.com/the-metaverse-explained-part-2-why-it-matters)
.. Part 3
(https://loupfunds.com/the-metaverse-explained-part-3-economics).. Part 4
(https://loupfunds.com/the-metaverse-explained-part-4-challenges)
Now you'll understand why digital currency and blockchain
technology is coming in.
Once this all becomes wireless and imbedded in human tissue
it will seal humanity's fate. Whilst one
part of you is living in the cloud playing in a fantasy (dream), another part
of you (your hijacked mind) will be slaving in a smart city factory (which will
be right next to your smart city sleeping dorm) making things for your
masters. You will have no sense of being
a sentient individual in reality, albeit for being occupied in a virtual mind prison that you will
not be able to leave. The part of you that makes you who you are will be
imprisoned in a complex of digital servers.
It will be the end of individuality.
Do you appreciate the important difference between reality
and virtual reality? If not, start thinking about it seriously!
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