Metaverse and digital twins

A metaverse may emerge, where we live out aspects of our lives in data-powered simulations. This requires a new mental model of the internet, taking into account digital objects, currencies, identities, experiences. 

Whether allowing us to merge with a piece of music or work with synthetic colleagues, metaverse technologies are more than just NFTs or cryptocurrencies. They are an opportunity to do impossible things and solve impossible problems.

Furthermore, autonomy is powered by simulation technologies – only if born digitally and tested in a virtual proving ground, can robots live and work alongside us.

As we gradually build up simulation infrastructure – avatar versions of warehouses, or container ports -  we can then stitch such digital twins together in a ‘twinternet’. This internet of simulations would allow us to step inside our critical systems (supply chains, electric grid, health system, a city, or even the human body) and run/monitor them remotely?

It’s the simulations’ world, we’re just living in it…

Data and AI

Sophie explores planetary scale computation, where our familiar devices disappear, liberated by AI.

The world itself then becomes a computer.

In this computer world, we become the interface. Screens and keyboards give way to robotic landscapes, homes, offices, that are constantly sensing: watching, listening, talking and making decisions. Here we ‘meet’ the AIs for the first time, powered by massive flows of data.

As we build this shadow world, with digital replicas of airports, factories, even our bodies, Sophie ponders the profound questions that emerge as we hook up to the machine. 

Web3

Web3 technologies (NFTs, blockchain etc) promise to help the internet ‘earn back our trust’. Sophie explores how advances in identity, privacy, consent, security technologies are the essence of this next generation of the internet. She explores the opportunities presented by autonomous companies, or avatar commerce, made possible by new internet architectures.

She looks beyond the hype to think critically how these new – distributed – technologies can provide business value.

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