You’ve likely heard discussions about the “metaverse” in the past few years, but you’re not alone if you can’t confidently describe what it is. Pinning down a precise definition of the metaverse is ...

Earlier this year, the management consultants McKinsey produced a report that said that the metaverse has the potential to generate up to $5 trillion in value by 2030 and is simply too big for ...

The future of the metaverse looks shakier than anyone can imagine. Tech companies that have bought into the concept fully—like Facebook-turned-Meta and Disney—are facing the realities of building out ...

Marginalized people often suffer the most harm from unintended consequences of new technologies. For example, the algorithms that automatically make decisions about who gets to see what content or how ...

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Building the Metaverse and the Future of the Internet For decades, a virtual reality version of the internet has been a staple of science fiction. The metaverse is the latest iteration and it has the ...

Metaverse advertising is the Wild West, and getting a head start toward future success means making these moves now. We know today that Stoll’s prediction was almost comically off-base, but we still ...

What is this so-called metaverse everyone keeps raving about? On the surface, it sounds like a quality piece of attainable technology, a literal melting pot of interconnected ideas, bringing together ...

Good question. “Metaverse” is currently a major buzzword in the worlds of tech, business, and finance, and like all buzzwords its definition is fuzzy, contested, and shaped by the ambitions of the ...