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Metaverse – The End of Reality and the Big Picture plus Sunyata

Laurel Papworth

Is it possible that either the NFT or the digital Twin, where you have both the real world item and the online item, will mean that we release our hold on resource hogging physical products and start to chase more of the online digital version of reality? So I would ask with Sunyata that we consider how much of the physical world do we.

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7 steps to shutting down a social media site

Laurel Papworth

The photo sharing social network Radar.net is shutting down and, thankfully, they have all undertaken all the key steps to do that sensitively and graciously. More in Social Media is Not An Experiment. In one virtual world we opened up the gates to all the “scarce&# goodies. An exit event pre-shutdown.

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Why Government Monitoring Is Creepy

Net-Savvy Executive

Quiz: A government agency wants to monitor social media in the course of performing its function. —Scott McNealy ( 1999 ) When people hear about social media monitoring by a government agency—such as the recent news of FBI , DHS , and CIA programs—the usual response is outrage about the perceived violation of privacy.

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