West Chester University
Why is it so important to be ahead of the technology adoption curve?
July 19, 2022
Taehoon (Joshua) is currently an Adjunct Professor at West Chester University in Pennsylvania and is the founder of TAF JK Group, a digital marketing company. Ian, Co-founder of Metafyi, was invited as a guest speaker to West Chester University to present about The Metaverse.
Ian touched on many key points such as:
- A general timeline for where the Metaverse will likely be in 5, 10, and 20 years from now
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- Impacts of societal stance on the Metaverse
- Under what specific scenarios the Metaverse will evolve quicker or slower
- Why the Metaverse may be developing faster than we think
- Why the Metaverse may be developing slower than we think
- The fundamentals of the Metaverse and Web 3.0 and the fundamentals of emerging and disruptive technologies
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- The technology adoption curve
- What an emerging technology means, what a disruptive technology means
- Examples of past Metaverses (second life)
- Examples of current Metaverses (Roblox, Sandbox, Somnium Space, Decentraland)
- What NFTs are and why they have utility beyond just art work
- Why Web 3.0 will democratize the internet and why Web 3.0 is About Ownership and Self-Sovereignty
- The technology adoption curve
- The premise of Metafyi and how Metafyi will help educate the future leaders of The Metaverse
- How the business will transition from an educational portal to a full-scale services business
- The parallel between the development of the internet in the 90’s and early 2000s and the development of the Metaverse today in 2022.
- Video of Bill Gates talking with David Letterman about the internet in 1995
- Why the development of the metaverse may parallel the development of the internet
- Why the dot com bubble may parallel a potential bubble with NFTs and cryptocurrencies
- Gartner hype cycle
- The past successful and failed emerging technologies and why they succeeded or failed
- Google Balloons