Big numbers coming. Microsoft’s US$75 billion (£55 billion) acquisition of Activision Blizzard has landed – true to Call of Duty vernacular – “like a bomb” on the US$200 billion revenue video games industry. It heavily arms the Xbox giant for its vision of the metaverse, in which gaming is the marketing adrenaline of this much-touted...
Companies that refuse to accept the new reality of remote and hybrid work (without good reasons) will start to look out of date, especially as the benefits for diversity, recruitment, and work-life balance increase. But hybrid work experiences still friction. While 2021 was about getting bosses to allow people to choose where they want to...
No article on the metaverse would be complete without a mention of the 1992 novel Snow Crash, in which Neal Stephenson coined the term. Stephenson’s novel is a prophetic work, written before the rise of the modern social web and coming to many of the same conclusions as Silicon Valley’s current generation of techno-utopians. Snow...
The Metaverse is a term coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 science fiction novel, Snow Crash. In Neal Stephenson’s book, character Hiro Protagonist writes a program called Snow Crash to create a metaverse. The term “metaverse” was originally used to refer to a 3D virtual reality environment in which an individual could interact with...
