The great irony of the net's platformization is that platforms are intermediaries, and the promise of the internet that got so many of us excited was disintermediation - getting rid of the middlemen that act as gatekeepers between community members, creators and audiences, buyers and sellers, etc.
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Cope is a museum technologist who's worked on lots of critical digital projects over the years, and in this talk, he addresses himself to the difference between the excitement of the #GalleriesLibrariesArchivesAndMuseums (#GLAM) sector over the possibilities of the #web, and why he doesn't feel the same excitement over the #metaverse, and its various guises - #XR, #VR, #MR and #AR.
The biggest reason to be excited about the web was - and is - the openness of disintermediation.
Metaversed – See Beyond The Hype, written by XR industry experts Luis Bravo Martins and Samantha G. Wolfe (publisher: Wiley), is a solid business guide. You can learn a lot from the authors, especially when you're new to the subject of metaverse technologies. However, there are also a couple of flaws.
@lxplm recenlty read and reviewed the book for the DW Innovation blog: