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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

Maybe you’ve read that the metaverse is going to replace the internet. It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a neat way to encapsulate some current trends in online infrastructure, including the growth of real-time 3D worlds. The protagonist is a master hacker who gets in katana fights at a virtual nightclub.

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Marc Andreessen on the future of technology and the nature of government services

CTOvision

We are already seeing the use of the Internet as a reference to law, but consider it being delivered in a tailored way to inform. By 2030 we should expect to have virtual adjudication in many cases. Consider the many services that states are already moving online, like driver licenses and car registration.

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How to make your offline self harder to find online

The Verge

You can’t wipe all your info off the internet — but you can make it less available There are two key concepts in information security : threat model and attack surface. When it comes to the internet, it’s nearly impossible to collapse your attack surface to zero — you’ll never achieve that without going into witness protection.

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

I see a parallel path to browser-based social networking. From its early beginnings with sixdegrees.com in 2000, it took until 2007 for social networking sites to work out the basics of what people found compelling and were comfortable with, leading to a broad-based uptake of social networking sites.

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Futurist conversations: Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard on Open vs Closed Systems

Trends in the Living Networks

Given this issue’s central role in virtually all business strategy today, we find that our clients are consistently asking us about how to think about and build strategies in this context. APIs have provided a huge boost to the Internet economy. APIs have provided a huge boost to the Internet economy.

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State of Cybercrime 2020: FBI Report

SecureWorld News

The FBI just released its annual Internet Crime Report, and it is truly a sign of the times. The FBI notes that the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has been key to its mission to track cybercrimes. For more detailed information and additional statistics on internet cybercrime in 2020, you can read the complete IC3 report.

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Microsoft avoided a round of Big Tech scrutiny. Then it bought a company for $69 billion.

Vox

Microsoft says it wants to offer as many games as possible to as many people as possible on as many devices as possible — including in new spaces like the metaverse, the virtual world that some companies ( most notably, Facebook ) see as the next tech frontier. The timing of Microsoft’s announcement wasn’t ideal.