Download or read book The Metaverse Fully Revised and Updated Edition Building the Spatial Internet written by Matthew Ball and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ball’s lucid and timely book offers a portal into a new realm.”—The Economist "The term “Metaverse” is thirty years old, yet only recently entered mainstream conversation, attracting both fascinating and skepticism. While some have promised its imminent arrival, in fact it will take a series of technological and societal leaps to realize its full potential. In The Metaverse, pioneering theorist, former tech executive, and acclaimed entrepreneur Matthew Ball offers an expansive tour of the “next internet”: he presents a comprehensive definition of the Metaverse (going far beyond mere virtual reality headsets), explains the technologies that will power it, addresses governance challenges, and predicts Metaverse winners and losers. Bringing clarity and authority to a frequently misunderstood concept, this revised and updated edition of Ball’s authoritative work demonstrates how the Metaverse will radically reshape society. “A comprehensive guide to every aspect of the metaverse.”—John Thornhill, Financial Times “Offers a better understanding of the metaverse than the novel that coined the term—1992’s Snow Crash.”—Cecilia D’Anastasio, Bloomberg
Download or read book The Metaverse And How It Will Revolutionize Everything written by Matthew Ball and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER — United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and China (Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Nielsen Bookscan, Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Toronto Star, Globe & Mail, BookNet Canada, Bookseller.com, Bookdao/Nielsen, JD, DangDang) Tim Sweeney (CEO of Fortnite-maker Epic Games): “Matthew Ball’s essays have defined, analyzed, and inspired the Metaverse for years. His book is an approachable and essential guide to the strategic, technical, and philosophical foundations of this new medium.” Derek Thompson (Atlantic staff writer and national best-selling author of Hit Makers): “This book feels like a rare achievement: a definitive statement about an emerging phenomenon that could shape the digital world, the global economy, and the very experience of human consciousness.” From the leading theorist of the Metaverse comes the definitive account of the next internet: what the Metaverse is, what it will take to build it, and what it means for all of us. The term “Metaverse” is suddenly everywhere, from the front pages of national newspapers and the latest fashion trends to the plans of the most powerful companies in history. It is already shaping the policy platforms of the US government, the European Union, and the Chinese Communist Party. But what, exactly, is the Metaverse? As pioneering theorist and venture capitalist Matthew Ball explains, it is a persistent and interconnected network of 3D virtual worlds that will eventually serve as the gateway to most online experiences, and also underpin much of the physical world. For decades, these ideas have been limited to science fiction and video games, but they are now poised to revolutionize every industry and function, from finance and healthcare to education, consumer products, city planning, dating, and well beyond. Taking us on an expansive tour of the “next internet,” Ball demonstrates that many proto-Metaverses are already here, such as Fortnite, Minecraft, and Roblox. Yet these offer only a glimpse of what is to come. Ball presents a comprehensive definition of the Metaverse before explaining the technologies that will power it—and the breakthroughs that will be necessary to fully realize it. He addresses the governance challenges the Metaverse entails; investigates the role of Web3, blockchains, and NFTs; and predicts Metaverse winners and losers. Most importantly, he examines many of the Metaverse’s almost unlimited applications. The internet will no longer be at arm’s length; instead, it will surround us, with much of our lives, labor, and leisure taking place inside the Metaverse. Bringing clarity and authority to a frequently misunderstood concept, Ball foresees trillions of dollars in new value—and the radical reshaping of society.
Download or read book The Future Internet written by Bernard Marr and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sneak peek at the future of the internet, from one of the web’s most prescient voices In The Future Internet: How the Metaverse, Web3, and NFTs Will Transform Business & Society, acclaimed futurist, author, and digital strategist Bernard Marr delivers a compelling and engaging discussion of the technologies driving the impending—and ongoing—transformation of the internet, including blockchain, augmented reality (AR), and more. In the book, you’ll explore the risks and opportunities presented by these game-changing techs and how they might impact you, your organisation, and community. The author explains how various sectors will be revolutionised by the future internet, as industries like sports, retail, energy, healthcare, education, and others feel the effects of paradigm-shifting developments in society and technology. He also discusses: Strategies for individuals seeking to leverage the coming changes in technology, employment, and culture The potential impact of the unprecedented combination of blockchain and AR technologies Techniques for getting in on the ground floor of a new internet that places a heavy premium on participation and immersive experiences An essential and incisive exploration of what our tomorrows might bring, The Future Internet is perfect for executives, managers, and other business leaders doing their best to get a head start on tomorrow’s digital economy.
Download or read book In the Upper Room and Other Likely Stories written by Terry Bisson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-06-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Upper Room and Other Likely Stories is the new collection of sixteen fantastic, ironic tales by Terry Bisson. Terry Bisson uses the fantastic genres as do Kurt Vonnegut or Harlan Ellison, and like them, he is one of the strikingly original voices in short fiction today, with an audience that transcends genre. "Particularly delightful," said The Christian Science Monitor of his first collection. Bisson writes entertaining and moving stories in a strong and unique voice. They are sharp, witty, subversive, and stylish. For instance: An Office Romance: a story of the private lives of icons on a computer desktop. First Fire: a scientist discovers a way to date burning flame's and tries it on one in an ancient temple, with astonishing results. Macs: clones of murderous criminals, with no human rights, are sent to be the property of their victims' families. From the author of "Bears Discover Fire," one of the most anthologized American short stories of the last decade, this is a collection of stories that originally appeared in sources as diverse as Asimov's SF, Playboy, Southern Exposure, and Crank! They are clever, slick, memorable, occasionally profound, and always surprising.
Download or read book Broken Scales written by Tom Diaz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans are a species that classifies. We arrange the flow of the things and events that we see and experience, place them into categories, and erect boundaries around those categories. Among the boundaries that we erect are those that we put around groups of “other” human beings. The evil side of human classification of other human beings is that we sometimes create false categories of other people, as is often the case in racial, ethnic, and religious stereotypes. This unmindful creation of empty categories of human characteristics is what happened during two periods crucial to the construction of race in America. This is racism. The United States is in a period of deep cultural flux and conflict, much of it seen through the lens of race. Tom Diaz proposes that the everyday actions of ordinary people, in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the lofty ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights. These everyday actions range across a spectrum from the armed intervention of private citizens in the forms of individual action, neighborhood watches, and citizen’s arrests, to the expectations imposed on law enforcement, in particular, and the criminal justice system in general.
Download or read book The Cinema of the Soviet Thaw written by Lida Oukaderova and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union experienced a dramatic resurgence in cinematic production. The period of the Soviet Thaw became known for its relative political and cultural liberalization; its films, formally innovative and socially engaged, were swept to the center of international cinematic discourse. In The Cinema of the Soviet Thaw, Lida Oukaderova provides an in-depth analysis of several Soviet films made between 1958 and 1967 to argue for the centrality of space—as both filmic trope and social concern—to Thaw-era cinema. Opening with a discussion of the USSR's little-examined late-fifties embrace of panoramic cinema, the book pursues close readings of films by Mikhail Kalatozov, Georgii Danelia, Larisa Shepitko and Kira Muratova, among others. It demonstrates that these directors' works were motivated by an urge to interrogate and reanimate spatial experience, and through this project to probe critical issues of ideology, social progress, and subjectivity within post–Stalinist culture.
Download or read book Leadership Dark Matter written by Tony Marinello and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership Dark Matter is a guide for aspiring and current leaders, and given the global pandemic caused by COVID-19, its contents could not be more relevant. This unprecedented time calls for true leaders to lead their people with compassion, innovation, and resiliency. When this global emergency finally subsides, people will remember how they were led. This trying time proves leadership applies to any organization or industry. This book defines leadership at the individual and collective level. It provides a unique and emotional range of experiences, scenarios, and recommendations from a veteran's perspective. This book encourages leaders to stop looking at the clock and to start looking at the calendar! It describes what a leader is for: creating influence and purpose in people. It addresses what leaders do: they plan, they assess, they review, and they critique. Leaders know that the people they lead are more important then any metric, technology, or product. Leadership is a profession that requires expertise and trust. It's the most important role that any one person can ever hold.
Download or read book Computer Networks written by Larry L. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eyes That Seen Plenty written by Aaron W. Campbell and published by Whitaker Distribution. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Eyes That Seen Plenty, we are given a rare window into one soul's journey ... and what a journey it has been! 'Autobiography' or 'Memoir' seems to fall short of describing what occurs in these pages. Part testimony, part sociological and historical window into an under documented time, Campbell presents a powerfully vulnerable and truthful story of a young man's journey from 1980's Black urban living, through a prestigious prep school, a summer job working in New York's Port Authority Station during the height of the crack epidemic, all the way to an Ivy League campus, and a fruitful life-changing career in ministry. The cultural and ethnographic aspects of this journey are gripping enough, but it is the beautiful and inspiring description of the author's spiritual development and finally giving himself to Christ ..."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book The Warsaw Ballroom written by William Welch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a unique place and time in Miami Beach where a nexus of characters would celebrate the reality of a dream. An ex-marine flamenco dancer convoked his gogo boys and drag queens in a choreography of deep tribal base and laser light. The White Rabbit motivates a bar side show of a two-foot batman dancing on the lap of an obese woman supported by a rotating penis sculpture. In the center ring, Michael and his friends dance to the rhythm of a fetal heart, their brains loaded with serotonin and dopamine. Throughout this anniversary night, DJ Padilla and the Queen of South Beach, Jacqueline, watch over the Warsaw revelers. This is their story.
Download or read book Converging Media written by John Vernon Pavlik and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Converging Media,Third Edition, expertly covers today's rapidly changing landscape while preparing students for what comes tomorrow. Unlike any other book on the market, Converging Media's synthesis of industrial, cultural, and technological perspectives more accurately reflects today's world.This new approach demands a more balanced and nuanced understanding of the role that technology and digital media have played in our mass communication environment. This third edition has undergone several major changes to keep pace with the rapidly evolving world of media.
Download or read book Infinite Reality written by Jim Blascovich and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can our brains recognize where "reality" ends and "virtual" begins? Where will technology lead us in five, fifty, or five hundred years? An unrivaled guide to our digital future that has been cited by the Supreme Court, Infinite Reality is a mind-bending "journey through the virtual universe" (Wall Street Journal). Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson, two pioneering authorities, explore the profound potential of emerging technologies and reveal how our brains behave in digital worlds.
Download or read book Tourism Tourists and Society written by Richard Sharpley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism, Tourists and Society provides a broad introduction to the inter-relationship between tourism and society, making complex sociological concepts and themes accessible to readers from a non-sociological academic background. It provides a thorough exploration of how society influences or shapes the behaviours, motivations, attitudes and consumption of tourists, as well as the tourism impacts on destination societies. The fifth edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent data, concepts and academic debates: • New content on: mobilities paradigm and the emotional dimension of tourist experiences. • New chapter: Tourism and the Digital Revolution, looking at the ways in which the Internet and mobile technology transform both tourist behaviour and the tourist experience. • New end-of-chapter further reading and discussion topics. Accessible yet critical in style, this book offers students an invaluable introduction to tourism, tourists and society.
Download or read book Master C for Windows written by Rex Woollard and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If object-oriented programming is your aim, Waite Group's Master C++ for Windows is right on target. This invaluable book/disk package contains an interactive, comprehensive, menu-driven training program on the C++ language. Applying the innovative techniques of computer-based training (CBT), the course tests your understanding of each topic as you learn to write real C++ code. Its testing techniques reinforce key concepts while virtually eliminating repetition and boredom. The highly sophisticated answer-judgment system allows for rough responses and misspellings. And the software's remarkable interactive intelligence picks up even minor hitches in your code and recommends specific corrective action. The book serves as a splendid companion to the program. After walking you through the installation of the software and use of all its features, it addresses every conceivable nuance of C++ programming. You'll learn about loops and decisions, objects and classes, and how to use the compiler, linker, and ANSI C library - not to mention the C++ streams class library for console and disk I/O. By skillfully nesting complex details within an exceptionally logical framework, Master C++ for Windows removes the "oops!" from object-oriented programming.
Download or read book New Media written by Leah A. Lievrouw and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Augmented and Mixed Reality for Communities written by Joshua A. Fisher and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using mixed and augmented reality in communities is an emerging media practice that is reshaping how we interact with our cities and neighbors. From the politics of city hall to crosswalks and playgrounds, mixed and augmented reality will offer a diverse range of new ways to interact with our communities. In 2016, apps for augmented reality politics began to appear in app stores. Similarly, the blockbuster success of Pokémon Go illustrated how even forgotten street corners can become a magical space for play. In 2019, a court case in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, extended first amendment rights to augmented reality. For all the good that these emerging media provide, there will and have been consequences. Augmented and Mixed Reality for Communities will help students and practitioners navigate the ethical design and development of these kinds of experiences to transform their cities. As one of the first books of its kind, each chapter in the book prepares readers to contribute to the Augmented City. By providing insight into how these emerging media work, the book seeks to democratize the augmented and mixed reality space. Authors within this volume represent some of the leading scholars and practitioners working in the augmented and mixed reality space for civic media, cultural heritage, civic games, ethical design, and social justice. Readers will find practical insights for the design and development to create their own compelling experiences. Teachers will find that the text provides in-depth, critical analyses for thought-provoking classroom discussions.
Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Online Learning written by Terry Anderson and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Neither an academic tome nor a prescriptive 'how to' guide, The Theory and Practice of Online Learning is an illuminating collection of essays by practitioners and scholars active in the complex field of distance education. Distance education has evolved significantly in its 150 years of existence. For most of this time, it was an individual pursuit defined by infrequent postal communication. But recently, three more developmental generations have emerged, supported by television and radio, teleconferencing, and computer conferencing. The early 21st century has produced a fifth generation, based on autonomous agents and intelligent, database-assisted learning, that has been referred to as Web 2.0. The second edition of "The Theory and Practice of Online Learning" features updates in each chapter, plus four new chapters on current distance education issues such as connectivism and social software innovations."--BOOK JACKET.
