n many respects, we are facing not the need for a new form of money but rather a new form of economics – a discipline about the world where scarcity still holds in physical materials but where overabundance is the rule in virtual ones. To me, this is one of the key tenets that need to be hammered out in the metaverse: How do the actual creators of the virtual worlds, and not just the hosts, get paid for their work?
n many respects, we are facing not the need for a new form of money but rather a new form of economics – a discipline about the world where scarcity still holds in physical materials but where overabundance is the rule in virtual ones. To me, this is one of the key tenets that need to be hammered out in the metaverse: How do the actual creators of the virtual worlds, and not just the hosts, get paid for their work?
Being the Community Editor for Data Science Central is a blast. Every week I get to choose articles from some of the best and brightest… Read More »DSC Weekly 6 Sept 2022: Getting the Most Out of DSC
One of the central concepts of the metaverse is the notion that every person has a single sign-on controlled by the vendors, which can, in turn, be used to track users as they move from one virtual world to another.
Announcements As cybersecurity risks evolve, it’s more important than ever for organizations to be aware of emerging threats and developments. In the four-day Combating Cyber Threats… Read More »DSC Weekly 16 August 2022: You Are Your Business
One of the challenges that decentralized finance (and the web in general) faces is the need to uniquely identify a person, an organization, or a product. This, in general, is difficult because open identifiers are easily spoofed. Blockchain largely intended to combat this by creating self-sovereignty through a distributed algorithm that verified transactions were recorded and captured in multiple places.
When I was six years old, I remembered Nichelle Nichols appearing on our family television set as the young communications officer aboard the Starship Enterprise, NCC-1701. This was around the same time that I remember a grainy black and white image of Neil Armstrong stepping out of the Lunar Lander, wearing the bulky lunar space suit, and uttering the famous words, “One small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind.” I wondered, at six, why they didn’t talk about womankind because Uhuru was on a spaceship, too, establishing first contact with the aliens even as everyone else was being thrown around the bridge by the alien photon torpedoes. Why wasn’t Uhura considered important enough to be included in that odd little spacewalk?
A century from now, historians will remark on a transformation that seemed subtle at the time but will have huge ramifications over time. Specifically, 2020 will be seen as the year when meetings became transparent.
Announcements Achieving endpoint visibility to ward off the threat of a breach has never been more important than it is in the age of data… Read More »DSC Weekly 19 July 2022: From Knowledge Graphs to Transformation as a Service
Announcements Achieving endpoint visibility to ward off the threat of a breach has never been more important than it is in the age of data… Read More »DSC Weekly 12 July 2022: The Emergence of the Modern Studio Model
