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  • On the current internet, nearly every online “unit of content,” from a photo to text, audio file, or video, can be transferred between social platforms, databases, cloud providers, content management systems, web domains, hosting companies, and more. Code is mostly transferrable, too. Despite this, it’s obvious that content-focused online platforms aren’t struggling to build a multi-billion-dollar (or trillion-dollar) business. These companies don’t need to “own” a user’s content in order to produce a flywheel based around its consumption.

    — The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything by Matthew Ball

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  • Human Centrality: A common view is that science has consistently been correcting our overly inflated view of our own significance. Stephen Jay Gould said, “The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.” But it turns out that we are central, after all.

    Our ability to create models—virtual realities—in our brains, combined with our modest-looking thumbs, has been sufficient to usher in another form of evolution: technology. That development enabled the persistence of the accelerating pace that started with biological evolution. It will continue until the entire universe is at our fingertips.

    — The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil

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  • The Singularity will represent the culmination of the merger of our biological thinking and existence with our technology, resulting in a world that is still human but that transcends our biological roots. There will be no distinction, post-Singularity, between human and machine or between physical and virtual reality.

    If you wonder what will remain unequivocally human in such a world, it’s simply this quality: ours is the species that inherently seeks to extend its physical and mental reach beyond current limitations.

    — The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil

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  • The future is hard to predict, even for pioneers. We are now on the cusp of the Metaverse, but consider one last time, the last two eras of computing and networking. Even the most ardent believers in the internet struggled to imagine a future in which there might be billions of web pages across millions of web servers, 300 billion emails per day, with billions of daily users, and a single network, Facebook, counting over three billion monthly users and two billion per day.

    — The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything by Matthew Ball

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