Rise of the metaverse


Virtual reality: Humans and digital artefacts now coexist in a connected environment. – 123rf.com

IN 1962, Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, an American psychologist and computer scientist renowned particularly for his contributions to interactive computing, said that the future of computing will be in the form of a huge intergalactic computer network connecting people from all over the world.

Most people at that time could not relate to what he was saying. Today, most of us have become very dependent on this intergalactic computer network.

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