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Metaverse Observations from the Fifth Solvay Conference

September 2nd, 2022 - As summer comes to a close and schools begin returning to session, we bring you back to France one last time, on this occasion to the coastal Norman town of Dieppe. It is the year 1892, and the de Broglie family has just welcomed their fifth child, Louie.

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Metaverse Observations from Dr. Frankenstein's Laboratory

"It's alive! It's alive!" These blood-curdling words, spoken by Dr. Victor Frankenstein after a feverish lightning storm infused life in his creature's lifeless body, are among the most fabled in film history. We employ this classic tale to caution about the need for a robust regulatory framework around the Metaverse.

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Metaverse Observations from the Wright Brothers' Garage

It is a historical curiosity that the first flying machine was successfully developed by Messrs. Orville and Wilbur Wright. Indeed, neither of the two brothers attended college or had any formal engineering training.

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Metaverse Observations In Memoriam Queen Elizabeth II

September 9th, 2022 - We are going to depart from our usual format in light of the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II. We want to attract your attention to two instances the Queen’s philosophy on technology was revealed.

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Metaverse Observations from the Pyrenees Mountains

August 26, 2022 - Alexander Grothendieck led a remarkable and mysterious life, and was perhaps the greatest mathematician of the 20th century. We take a look at his story, and discuss how his approach to discoveries in mathematics is highly relevant for the work being conducted to build the Metaverse today.

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Metaverse Observations From a Flat World?

August 19, 2022 - Is the world flat yet? In this newsletter, we take a look at the much acclaimed 2005 book written by Thomas Friedman entitled The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. And much more.

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Metaverse Observations Since Harvard Mark I

August 12, 2022 - Preparing this missive every week is a humbling act, as the process involves us diving deeply into cutting-edge technologies, meeting talented technologists and professionals, and learning about the incredible range of research and development underway.

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Metaverse Observations from the Snack Aisle

August 5, 2022 - While we are going about our day-to-day routines, lurking in the background is a debate whose winner in the coming months, or perhaps small number of years, will determine nothing less than the core structure and shape of the next chapter of the internet.

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Metaverse Observations from Princeton’s IAS

July 29, 2022 - There’s a great story about Claude E. Shannon, the eminent mathematician regarded as the father of information technology, that was recently shared with us. While giving a lecture one afternoon at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, Albert Einstein, a fellow Professor of this fabled Institute, suddenly walks into the amphitheater...

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Metaverse Observations from Reality+

March 10, 2022 - One of the great resources we found to pursue the analysis of the debate on the true existence of an external world, a question first critically addressed by French philosopher René Descartes in his breakthrough treatise Méditations Métaphysique published in 1641, is a brand new book by NYU Professor of Philosophy David Chalmers titled Reality+.

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Metaverse Observations from the Metaverse?

March 2, 2022 - We write to you on a weekly basis about the ongoing work to build a fully immersive computer-generated simulated world, sharing the various advances and accomplishments that are bringing the next chapter of the internet closer. But as so much progress continues to be done, we may have gotten everything wrong...

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Metaverse Observations from an International Crisis

February 24, 2022 - We have delayed publication of this week's newsletter as a result of the extraordinary events unfolding in Europe.

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Metaverse Observations from Space

Feb 15, 2022 - As technologists, we are naturally fascinated by Elon Musk. For this reason, we follow his comings and goings closely, and sometimes this leads us to some inspiring insights into his vision and drive.

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Metaverse Observations from the Movies

Feb 8, 2022 - We will start this week's newsletter by taking a trip to the movies. Georges Méliès, the French visionary born in 1861 who produced more than 500 films and revolutionized the nascent film industry, is perhaps best known for his short film A Trip to the Moon.

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Metaverse Observations from Heaven?

February 1, 2022 - One of the things that caught our eye this week was the release by global market research company Ipsos of the very interesting results of its survey on the Metaverse.

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Microsoft Pulls a Mr. Bean

January 25, 2022 - One of the main points of discussion and a question we have been regularly receiving is whether the Metaverse is good, and whether it, and Virtual Reality, can really be bought into on a wide scale.

Metaverse Observations from the 10th Dimension

January 18, 2022 - They say that it is calm before a storm. But they should also add that it is calm after a storm.

All Eyes on the Metaverse

January 10, 2022 - What a week this has been. The Consumer Electronics Show 2022, which took place in Last Vegas from Wednesday to Saturday, featured a plethora of newsmaking unveilings.

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Seizing the Metaverse Opportunity

January 3, 2022 - We are excited to begin 2022 by publishing our first weekly newsletter, and look forward to sharing the adventure ahead with you.

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