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Real investments in virtual worlds continue

The Way of the Web

Don’t forget back in 2004, David Storey paid $26,500 in Entropia , then Jon Jacobs invested $100,000 in a virtual space station in Entropia in November 2005, and of course Anshe Chung became a millionaire via Second Life in 2006. If I had the money and time, I think I would try to make investments in this kind of virtual worlds.

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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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Key trends for 2012: Digital Disruption gets Physical

The Way of the Web

And we’ve also seen new tools and changes in collaboration, business practices, marketing, freelancing, crowdsourcing and much more. But the majority of these changes have all been concerned with the fact you can transmit information and content effortlessly around the world.

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