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Here comes the ‘destination workplace.’
In a market economy, some human spaces are provided as services that compete with other services to attract customers. This is true of hotels, gyms, and shopping malls. But it hasn’t been true of workplaces. In the past, the workplace was provided by a monopoly provider — the company you worked for. As a result,…
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How Apple plans to dent reality in the next 12 months
Apple updates hardware, software, and services every year and has never been too afraid to cannibalize an existing product range to make way for the new — the iPhone ate the iPod, after all. Now, we hear that Apple is preparing its late 2022/early 2023 product salvo, and, as expected, this may include AR glasses.…
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Human digital twins and evolution: The real Westworld?
Last week, I wrote about a new company — Merlynn — that’s selling a rudimentary human digital twin tool. I’ve been thinking about digital twins ever since — and about how a tool like this could become the next killer productivity application. When tools that enhance an experience are initially created, they tend to emulate what came…
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Apple doesn’t want a metaverse, it wants a better universe
The news that Apple hasn’t joined an all-new industry alliance that seems mostly led by its competitors isn’t terribly surprising. Augmented and virtual reality shouldn’t be defined as virtual designer shopping experiences, NFTs, and escapism — these powerful tools should become solutions that extend and embrace our existing universe. What’s the story? Apple apparently declined…
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Merlynn and the promise of human ‘digital twins’
Digital twins are being created in factories and cities, and we even have an Earth 2 effort that attempts to create a digital twin of the planet. But the most important of these will be human digital twins, which many of us thought were still years away. Well, Merlynn, an AI-centric tech firm, has already…