MATTHEW THOMAS Director, MBA programmes, Birmingham University
MAŁGORZATA GAWRYCK Dean, Faculty of Management and Economics at Gdańsk University of Technology,
According to Forbes, the metaverse will totally change the way we live, learn, earn, and connect Right now, we are on the brink of another pivotal moment in tech history, the next frontier in online interaction. Something bigger than the internet is coming, and it will end the internet as we know it. Imagine a world like our real world, but one in which you can meet, shop, go to school, play games, be creative, be whoever you want to be – all while teleporting and time travelling to wherever you want to go. This is the metaverse. Roger James Hamilton, futurist, New York Times bestselling author and Co-Founder of Genius School, explained into how the gaming world is leading the way into a new 3D metaverse and will outline the key trends that are shaping our future. He launched into his session – which he joined via Zoom link – by saying: ‘Soon Zoom meetings are going to be a thing of the past.’ Hamilton went on to explain: ‘During the pandemic we’ve seen a huge shift in terms of how people consider their businesses and their work. This is like the shift in 1995, at the beginning of the internet. Some of the biggest companies in the world were created from the internet, so what will be created now?’ He answered his own question by explaining: ‘We’re seeing a great reignition – like a new renaissance – in which people are reinventing themselves, while others are left behind.
ROGER JAMES HAMILTON
Co-founder of Genius School
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