Basic Metaverse
How Virtual Worlds Will Change Our Reality and What You Can Do to Unlock Their Potential
What is the metaverse? Quite simply, it's a digital platform to help people collaborate, work and play in new ways, in an immersive 3D environment. In Basic Metaverse, leading futurist David L. Shrier explains how the technology works, unpacks its potential uses - including its relationship to the development of Web3 - and its impact on everyday life and work. He explores some of the legal and moral quandaries that could accompany widespread adoption of this transformational technology, from issues of wealth disparity and access to what happens if your virtual avatar commits a crime in the metaverse. The metaverse future is full of possibility. One thing we can be certain of is that it will be stranger than we can imagine. Join Shrier as he journeys across virtual worlds in search of understanding.
One of the world's leading futurists explains what the metaverse is and how it will change the way you live and work. Shrier unpacks the Meta-fuelled hype train and explores some of the moral and legal questions that are likely to arise from the adoption of this major new technology
Autor: | Shrier, David |
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ISBN: | 9781472148148 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Verlag: | Little, Brown and Company |
Veröffentlicht: | 08.06.2023 |
Untertitel: | How Virtual Worlds Will Change Our Reality and What You Can Do to Unlock Their Potential |
Schlagworte: | COMPUTERS / Social Aspects Practical applications of information technology TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects Technology: general issues Virtual Reality Virtual worlds |
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