The Metaverse future
welcome to the simulation..
Welcome to the digital/virtual future!
More like, Welcome to the Metaverse!!
I told my dad recently after he heard the similar I have been nudging at him for the past two years. I was disappointed to be reminded once again that my parent has more belief in mainstream media and his television box more than his own offspring that he spent money sending to various schools to acquire knowledge. I am not also surprised as many boomers then to think in this direction but I doubt if many of them have proper understanding of the metaverse, its simulations, and the gamified aspects to it. In fact, I am aware that so many of my peers cannot get to understand what it is. I have been trying to alert another narrow minded millennial artist in Nigeria but this one fails to expand their horizons. I guess many will be late to the party!
We are in a version of the metaverse already. You are probably reading this journal on a device that is connected to the internet which gives you a channel into version one of the metaverse. When you play video games, you are in a metaverse simulation. Your Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc. applications are different channels in various metaverses where you get to chat, like, post, share, video call and interact with other people. The second phase of this is the implementing a simulation of the world in the virtual world. This will be completed through virtual reality headsets, where we can travel, go to meetups, clubs, conferences, concerts, etc. in the digital realm. An example is Snoop Dogg’s partnership with The Sandbox to recreate his mansion and get to “experience snoop parties and concerts”. This is only the beginning of our experience in a new culture and social experiment that will transform our very beings.
According to David Perell’s Mondays musings, a famous poet by the name of Ezra Pound once said, "artists are the antennae of civilization." They act like a signal of the times we are living in, embodying the new culture and the future of social interactions. They express themselves by outlining the future through what is possible with the new technology in existence.
Artists see the future first, of course not all artists. Only the forward thinking ones!
Brian Eno also went further: “What is possible in art becomes thinkable in life. We become our new selves first in simulacrum, through style and fashion and art, our deliberate immersions in virtual worlds. Through them, we sense what it would be like to be another kind of person with other kinds of values. We rehearse new feelings and sensitivities. We imagine other ways of thinking about our world and its future.”
I have been working on a NFT project which I will write about when we are done working on releasing relevant information. I am interested in what the future holds for all of us and what can be developed with the new technology we have available to us. We can use this medium to educate, and create new forms of experiences for numerous individuals. The possibilities are endless!
There are likely dangers with new innovation as they have a possibility of restricting and diminishing our real life communication capabilities. There has been minimal research regarding this but, there is a clear interest in the subject area (My research topic for my proposed PHD degree was to be in this study area).
There are books that one could read to catch up on the metaverse future and where it might take us;
Finally, we can read Nick Bostrom’s original paper arguing that “(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.”
Interesting times ahead.
LFG!!
- Ope