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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. It’s a joke.

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IDF 2013: Keynote, Day 2

Scott Lowe

He walks through an example of taking a picture of “the most frequently found animal on the Internet—the cat.” Skaugen takes some time to describe more fully the specifications around 2-in–1 devices, coming from hardware partners like Dell, HP, Lenovo, Panasonic, Sony, and Toshiba.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. In 2008, she co-founded wabi.sabi lab , a strategic foresight company that specializes in seizing future opportunities in new media and internet culture. Twitter: @rebeccacosta.

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