In my last article “Five perspectives on the nature and form of the Metaverse” I looked at how five distinct narratives emerged over time to establish their own purpose and form for the Metaverse. I also stated that the Metaverse was a contested future vision, claimed by different stakeholders, each…

This article is a kind-of, sort-of follow-up to “Four perspectives on NFTs”. Consider the following question: What is the Metaverse? The best answer right now is something like: “The Metaverse is a contested future vision, claimed by different stakeholders, each with very different perspectives, assumptions and goals.” But this definition…

After writing about what excites me about generative AI tools, I felt like I should also write about what worries me a bit. There is this interesting part of the web that does not exist to be read by humans — it only exists to be parsed by search robots…

Here is an actual statement from 1998: “Clipart collections will be the end of designers.” To understand that statement, you need to remember (or imagine, depending on your age) a world where no internet image search existed. Stock photos came as print catalogs that you would order disks from, and…

It’s good practice to review your predictions and see which you got right and where you went wrong. Here is a retrospective of one of my predictions that I got wrong, plus some learnings. Soon after the Oculus DK1 was released in 2013, I made the prediction that within the…

It’s the start of a new year, which means: Prediction time for a lot of people and organizations. I have read many, many technology predictions over the last couple of weeks: Some good ones, but unfortunately also many (very) bad ones. …

Currently everybody is doing their 2023 predictions. As somebody in the strategy field I love reading (and writing) these, but after a while they become repetitive. …

This article is a kind-of, sort-of follow-up to “Why I don’t believe in the Web3 narrative” and “Why I don’t believe in the Blockchain technology narrative.” It’s more of a provocation. If you want the rational articles, read the above links. Because I work on and around the Metaverse, people…

This list of Web3 use cases is periodically reviewed and updated. If you have feedback or input, please either write a comment or send a message to @dirksonguer. Thank you! Last update: Dec 5, 2022. Index & direct links [Metaverse, Interoperability, Gaming] Web3 is required to provide interoperability for the Metaverse so that users…