The Gatherverse & a humanity-centered Metaverse

futureofwork, Macro trends

I recently spoke at The Gatherverse Summit, a conference focused around ensuring the development of the Metaverse stays human-centered. My talk featured my thinking around how this extends to the Future of Work, and how XR and 3d interaction plays a crucial role in making the work experience more humane (and, efficient as it turns out). While I’d call it more a thought piece than an in-depth analysis (it’s 10 minutes), it addresses how the “great resignation” as it’s being called is actually more of a “great re-evaluation,” and that designing a workplace that

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The end of loneliness

Digital Avatars, Focus: AR/VR, Macro trends, Thought bites, Virtual reality

Reposted from linkedin Heard a really sweet story today by Donna Z. Davis, Ph.D. at AWE (Augmented World Expo): she told the audience about an elderly woman with Parkinson’s, who regularly “meets” her tuxedo clad physically distant son (avatar) in VR to go dancing with him. *That’s* the power of VR for me. Not the whiz bang isn’t it cool game stuff, it’s the human element – and how much better it can make people’s lives. On the We Get Real AF Podcast (airing in June) I was asked what I thought the ultimate benefit of VR would be:

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Addendum / Manufacturing and automation

Macro trends, technology trends

A follow up article  by Technology Review addressing some of the points I touched on in my last blog post,” Learning to be Human“. “Those who would help displaced factory workers need to think much more urgently about how to provide for and accelerate what policymakers euphemistically call “adjustment” for the victims of economic shocks like deindustrialization.”

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Psychohistory

Macro trends, Psychohistory

I’m doing what I mentioned in my first post: musing about the “grand unified theory” as I watch with (sometimes admittedly sarcastic) humor people’s frenzied adherence to holiday traditions – and the mental sandboxes people accept without questioning. It’s more an ongoing vector analysis of humanity and the attempting to predict outcomes as to where “streams” are going to collide and swirl (paging Hari Seldon, yes, I know) – ultimately to predict where needs with be for next generation (and beyond) technology. And investments, while I’m at it (why not, right?) There are a few categories

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