The “Streaming Wars” have only just begun, yet the first streaming video took place more than 25 years ago. This concept was then used to formulate the idea of “hypertext” (a term coined two decades later), which in turn guided the development of the World Wide Web (developed another two decades later).
In 1945 Vannevar Bush described what he called the “ Memex”, a single device that would store all books, records and communications, and mechanically link them together by association. However, the biggest developments are often anticipated decades in advance. Technology frequently produces surprises that nobody predicts. You can read more here, or purchase at the following retailers: Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Bookshop, Hudson Booksellers, Target, Walmart, more. The title has also been endorsed by the Founders and CEOs of companies such as Epic Games, Unity, Netflix, and more, and Apple Books has listed it as one of the most anticipated books of Summer 2022. It provides a deeper, broader, better, and more up-to-date thinking on the topic, and more accurately reflects my positions, as well as everything I’ve learned and the feedback I’ve received since I began writing about the Metaverse. But I would love for anyone interested in the topic to check out the book. In the spirit of openness, I’ve kept all my old essays up. Norton publishes my book “The Metaverse and How It Will Revolutionize Everything”.
In June 2021, I released a nine-part update, 'The Metaverse Primer'. Note: This essay was released in January 2020, expanding on a piece I wrote in 2018.
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