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On the current internet, nearly every online “unit of content,” from a photo to text, audio file, or video, can be transferred between social platforms, databases, cloud providers, content management systems, web domains, hosting companies, and more. Code is mostly transferrable, too. Despite this, it’s obvious that content-focused online platforms aren’t struggling to build a multi-billion-dollar (or trillion-dollar) business. These companies don’t need to “own” a user’s content in order to produce a flywheel based around its consumption.

— The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything by Matthew Ball

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  1. No matter what you’re after, in the internal groundswell, the secret to thriving is culture. This is not about technology implementation but about managing and changing the way organizations work, a change that needs the blessing—or, even better, the active participation—of top echelons of management. It’s nearly impossible to force social technologies on organizations from the top down, because, by their definition, these technologies require the participation of your employees. You can’t force them to adopt groundswell thinking, any more than you can convince reluctant managers to deploy social technologies with your customers. But it sure helps if the […]
  2. As companies tend to innovate faster than their customers’ needs evolve, most organizations eventually end up producing products or services that are actually too sophisticated, too expensive, and too complicated for many customers in their market. Companies pursue these ‘sustaining innovations’ at the higher tiers of their markets because this is what has historically helped them succeed: by charging the highest prices to their most demanding and sophisticated customers at the top of the market, companies will achieve the greatest profitability.” Among them are new technologies and platforms. — The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to […]
  3. The future is hard to predict, even for pioneers. We are now on the cusp of the Metaverse, but consider one last time, the last two eras of computing and networking. Even the most ardent believers in the internet struggled to imagine a future in which there might be billions of web pages across millions of web servers, 300 billion emails per day, with billions of daily users, and a single network, Facebook, counting over three billion monthly users and two billion per day. — The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything by Matthew Ball Source: Amazon Kindle […]
  4. The Singularity will represent the culmination of the merger of our biological thinking and existence with our technology, resulting in a world that is still human but that transcends our biological roots. There will be no distinction, post-Singularity, between human and machine or between physical and virtual reality. If you wonder what will remain unequivocally human in such a world, it’s simply this quality: ours is the species that inherently seeks to extend its physical and mental reach beyond current limitations. — The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil Source: Amazon Kindle […]
  5. Don’t count on breakthroughs. Move ahead early and find the market for the current attributes of the technology. You will find it outside the current mainstream market. You will also find that the attributes that make disruptive technologies unattractive to mainstream markets are the attributes on which the new markets will be built. — The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) by Clayton M. Christensen Source: Amazon Kindle […]

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