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…

This 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.” I wrote this thing about how Blockchains are not a scale technology and that their narrative is mostly driven by criminals and investors. Now Meta…

In January 2000, Raph Koster pondered the question: “Do players of virtual worlds have rights?”, leading to his seminal essay: “A Declaration of the Rights of Players.” Setting the scene Raph Koster was the lead designer for Ultima Online: The Second Age until 2000, when he joined Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) in Austin…

This is a kind-of, sort-of follow-up to “Why I don’t believe in the Web3 narrative” Because I work on and around the Metaverse, people often ask me about blockchains and are quite surprised when I dismiss them as extremely limited technology, surrounded by false narratives. Why is Blockchain? To explain my opinion, I…

In 2006, several virtual world veterans created Metaplace as a platform to democratize the development of virtual worlds in the spirit of the open web. Setting the scene Web2.0 was a perceptional shift in how the web operated. Instead of a publisher-reader relationship, websites turned into platforms where everybody could be a publisher. …