In which David & Cory talk about Elon Musk’s Twitter board seat, what the Metaverse really means to ‘normal’ people, consider some eye opening NFT facts. Is it time to sit behind the safety car for a few laps, until the debris of the wrecks are cleared away before racing continues?
Show Notes & Bookmarks
- (00:35) Simon Sinek Infinite Game
- (01:50) Elon Musk buys himself a Twitter board seat.
- (06:08) Jack’s Web3 Tweet
- (07:17) Gartner’s thoughts about the Metaverse
- (08:29) Nord VPN ask American’s about their thoughts on the Metaverse
- (09:55) Facebook and the teacher slapping meme
- (10:21) Famous women are receiving terrible DMs and Facebook is doing nothing about it.
- (15:48) The dark secret of virtual spaces (e.g. IMVU, Yahoo Chat)
- (16:31) The B2B Work metaverse is where it is at… mixed reality and XR
- (19:15) Neal Stephenson’s ‘The Diamond Age’
- (19:43) Adidas partners with Ready Player Me
- (22:40) NFT ‘Facts’
- (26:47) Netflix Documentary – Trust No One
- (30:20) The yellow flags are out…
- (33:42) Macdonalds doesn’t need stores in the Metaverse… think about the user journey. Why can’t they spend their hour in the metaverse in the Macdonalds store?
- (36:00) We talked about personalisation in Episode 5
- (40:50) Amazon is huge. Ecommerce is huge. But.. the majority of retails sales are still done offline.
- (42:01) Who is your customer? Who will be your customer?
- (44:05) Cory finally gets around to watching ‘Drive to Survive’
