Companies are promoting sparkling visions of what the metaverse can offer. While there are tremendous opportunities for business and society, the virtual land rush is based on a myth, says Wharton Professor Kevin Werbach, a leading authority on the business, legal and public policy implications of emerging technologies. In this talk, he cuts through the metaverse hype, situates the metaverse as the convergence of four streams of technology — online communities, video games, virtual reality, and digital assets — and identifies where the real opportunities lie. He also explains how the metaverse connects to the trust revolution of cryptocurrencies, digital assets and decentralized blockchains.
Today, we take for granted that the majority of humanity is connected in real-time to the global internet, which was the stuff of science fiction 30 years ago. Yet, there is no guarantee there will still be an internet as we know it even 10 years from now. How might the internet fragment, or conversely, how might cyberspace become indistinguishable from the real world? What would be the implications, and how can organizations plan for these scenarios? In this presentation, Kevin Werbach, who has been an active practitioner since the internet’s early days, takes a look at where the web is going over the coming years and decades, and how organizations can remain ahead of the curve.
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