An essay series by Jon Askonas, politics professor at the Catholic University of America, on what killed consensus reality — and what’s coming next. The breakup of consensus reality — a shared sense of facts, […]
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Metaverse Deep Dive – Decoding the Buzzword
The high level of interest and curiosity by users and corporations is rising – no doubt, but let us create some understanding of what exactly the metaverse is. As Dr.Martha Boeckenfeld mentions, if you put […]
The Pathologies of the Attention Economy
L. M. Sacasas considers what we should take into consideration whenever we talk about the “problem of attention” and when we try to do something about it. I’ve learned in listening to others tell their […]
Why Your Life Could Be Part of Someone Else’s Game
Are you being played? That’s the question the author Adrian Hon poses in a new book about the “gamification” of modern life. Game-like incentives and rewards permeate our world. Is the world controlled by a […]
Fintech App Portabl Raises $2.5M to Help Consumers Securely Store Financial Data
Fintech Portabl announced the closing of a $2.5 million seed round recently led by Harlem Capital Partners. Portabl, founded by Nate Soffio and Alex Yenkalov, also launches its beta today for institutional use. It provides […]
Hilton hotels Will Design Astronaut Suites on Private Starlab Space Station
Hilton wants to ‘reimagine the human experience in space, making extended stays more comfortable.’ Hilton is ready to take its hospitality off-planet. The hotel giant will move into a future Earth-orbiting space station called Starlab […]
3 Steps to Build ‘Adaptive’ Smart Cities of the Future
Cities represent perhaps the most important opportunity for innovation and digital transformation for our entire society and the planet. While the concept of the smart city has long been the future vision for cities, even […]
How Game Design Principles Can Enhance Democracy
“Gamification doesn’t just give us the digital scaffolding to fulfill the promise of democracy. It can help us build ties and trust in one another.” Many choose to gamify parts of their lives to make […]
Algorithms and the Future of Work
To achieve the benefits that algorithm-enabled systems and devices promise in the future of work, we must study how to effectively manage their risks. In the future of work, algorithms will provide many beneficial applications […]
VR as Good as Psychedelics at Helping People Reach Transcendence
On key metrics, a VR experience elicited a response indistinguishable from subjects who took medium doses of LSD or magic mushrooms. Fifteen years ago, David Glowacki was walking in the mountains when he took a […]
Democratizing Finance: The Radical Promise of Fintech
Marion Labouré shares 5 key insights from her new book with co-author Nicholas Deffrennes, “Democratizing Finance: The Radical Promise of Fintech”. Financial technology, or Fintech, is a global equalizer that can reduce inequalities between countries […]
Magic Leap’s Origin Story
Voices of VR sits down with Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz for two hours to unpack some of the many threads Magic Leap’s behind origin story. The journey to augmented reality. It really did not […]
Will the World Ever Be Ready For a Linear Metropolis?
Saudi Arabia has unveiled designs for a futuristic megastructure in the desert. But it is an idea that has preoccupied the imaginations of architects – and megalomaniacs – for generations. The army of consultants commissioned […]
Think Like A Brand & The Metaverse is a Branding Statement
Jason Henrichs and Jim Marous interview Allison Netzer and Liz High about their book “Think Like A Brand Not A Bank”. Maybe you don’t necessarily put the customer first. Great brands get great returns every […]
Why are Hard Drive Companies Investing in DNA Data Storage?
The research community is excited about the potential of DNA to function as long-term archival storage. That’s largely because it’s extremely dense, chemically stable for tens of thousands of years, and comes in a format […]
Matthew Ball’s “The Metaverse” Book is the Most Comprehensive Description of the Metaverse Stack
Ball tells the broader story of the Metaverse, helping bring a more grounded definition of the Metaverse reflecting what’s already happening in gaming and where it’s likely to go in the future. Matthew Ball’s “The […]
Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms
Platform cooperatives are a strategy of political and organizational might, uniting workers in a concrete way to own the conditions of their work and to redirect technology to the benefit of average workers, not global […]
A Primer on Presence, Immersive Storytelling, & Experiential Design
Voices of VR Podcast host Kent Bye traces the evolution of storytelling through the lens of how virtual and augmented reality provides a direct, embodied experience and environmental context that is difficult to achieve in […]
Empirically Grounded Technology Forecasts and the Energy Transition
Compared to continuing with a fossil fuel-based system, a rapid green energy transition will likely result in overall net savings of many trillions of dollars—even without accounting for climate damages or co-benefits of climate policy. […]
Historic Day for Crypto as Ethereum Merge to Proof-of-Stake Occurs
The Ethereum Merge has officially taken place, marking the full transition of the network to proof-of-stake (PoS). On Sept. 15 at 06:42:42 UTC at block 15,537,393, the long-awaited Merge saw the merging of the Ethereum […]
Microchips in Humans: Consumer-Friendly App, or New Frontier in Surveillance?
Like any technology, there is always a dark side — especially with a newer technology that is so invasive that it literally gets under our skin. n 2021, a British/Polish firm known as Walletmor announced […]
Is There Such a Thing As an Ethical Smart City?
Josh O’Kane’s new book on Sidewalk Labs’ failed city of the future says there’s potential. In October 2017, an Alphabet subsidiary named Sidewalk Labs announced that it was going to build a brand-new neighborhood, “mixing […]
Takeaways from the Twitter Whistleblower Hearing
Former Twitter security chief Peiter “Mudge” Zatko testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday alleging widespread security deficiencies at the social media platform. During a two-and-a-half hour hearing, Zatko alleged Twitter lacked a framework to […]
South Korea Issues Arrest Warrant for Do Kwon, Luna Drop Nearly 50%
A court in South Korea has issued an arrest warrant for Do Kwon, the founder of Terraform Labs, escalating its probe into the crypto ecosystem whose two tokens lost $40 billion in value in a […]
China Discovers Stunning Crystal on the Moon, Nuclear Fusion Fuel for Limitless Energy
The find makes China the third country to discover a new mineral on the Moon, and the country says it’s analyzed the soil for rare helium-3. China has discovered a crystal from the Moon made […]
What I Learned About the Future from Listening to 223 YC Startup Pitches
By Y Combinator’s own track record, most of the companies launched this week won’t go on to become the next billion-dollar company, but they do give a good indication on what the next wave of […]
Investing in Africa’s Green Revolution
Hubert Danso is the CEO of the institutional infrastructure investment platform, Africa Investor. Hubert talks to Dave and Dharm DeMystify about the potential of Africa to drive a green industrial revolution, and the importance of […]
William Gibson’s Novel Comes to Vivid Life in First Teaser for “The Peripheral”
Prime Video’s The Peripheral premieres on October 21, 2022. A second season is purportedly already in active development. The novel is in many ways vintage Gibson: a bleak, dystopian future world chock-full of big thematic […]
Struggling to Scale? Fintech Decacorns and the Downturn
As growth across the fintech industry slows and contracts, we take a look at how fintech decacorns have been affected. The news that the world’s largest and most successful Buy Now Pay Later company, Klarna, […]
American Workers Need Lots and Lots of Robots
In order to make reshoring happen, though, we will need automation, automation, and more automation. Frankly, every time I’ve read about this “rise of the robots” fear, I’ve felt the urge to tear my hair […]