Emirates News Agency – Repeating web’s previous errors will depart metaverse ‘out of our control’, inflicting 100 occasions extra information safety danger: Expert

By Binsal Abdulkader

ABU DHABI, fifth December, 2022 (WAM) – The digital transformation to metaverse, the subsequent technology of the web, is a golden alternative for the humanity to create an open and clear digital house not managed by just a few, an skilled informed the Emirates News Agency (WAM).

“But there is a very much a chance that we make the same mistakes as we did with the current form of the internet [Web 2.0], and during the transition from the first generation of the world wide web [Web 1.0] to the Web 2.0,” Dr. Mark van Rijmenam, a number one future tech strategist, mentioned referring to leaving the management of digital house to large giants, with no degree enjoying subject.

Analogue species to digital species

“Metaverse will host 100 times more data that we create today. It is such a massive transition as we move from analogue species to digital species, from Homo sapiens to Homo digitalis,” mentioned the Dutch skilled who was a speaker on the not too long ago held International Media Congress in Abu Dhabi.

“Therefore, it is very important we educate ourselves about creating an open metaverse, which is open and transparent and not owned and controlled by quite a few,” he asserted.
Rijmenam has written three best-selling books on large information, blockchain, Synthetic Intelligence (AI), and metaverse – the subsequent technology of the web offering a virtual-reality house during which customers can work together with a computer-generated atmosphere and different customers. The metaverse will provide a simulated digital atmosphere utilizing augmented actuality (AR), digital actuality (VR), and blockchain, together with ideas from social media, to create areas for wealthy consumer interplay imitating the actual world.

Massive tech’s unreliable information dealing with

He mentioned he doesn’t belief large tech that make enormous investments in metaverse as a result of a few of them should not have a very good historical past of coping with buyer information in an accurate means that’s reliable, dependable, non-public, and safe. Therefore, he sincerely hopes such large tech don’t reach metaverse.

Rijmenam is the creator of the guide titled ‘Step into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy,’ that particulars what the open metaverse is and the way organisations and shoppers can profit from the immersive web.

He envisages an open metaverse “where we own our own data, own our own digital assets, and own our own identity. Because data is crucial, if we do not want to end up in a dystopian future where the metaverse is owned by one central entity or one person.”

Lazy humanity more likely to repeat errors

Now clearly, he identified, “we need technology for that, and the upcoming third generation of the World Wide Web [Web 3.0] technology enables the infrastructure layer of an open internet. However, no matter how much I want that to happen, there’s a very big challenge,” the tech skilled warned.

“It may not happen because people are lazy, and we always want to go to easy way and easy routes. So, there is a very much a chance that we make the same mistakes as we did with Web 2.0 and during the transition from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0,” he defined.

On Internet 1.0 you managed your personal information, Rijmenam famous. It was very troublesome to arrange a server, to organise something, to construct a web site, and to go surfing and so forth. “Then there were tech start-ups who tried to make those efforts easier, and they became the big tech that we know today.”

New start-ups turn into larger tech

The skilled predicted that it’s attainable that the identical factor might occur within the metaverse as a result of it is extremely troublesome to do something within the metaverse now. “Building a 3D [three-dimensional] immersive experience with a virtual reality or augmented reality, whatsoever, is difficult. So, some companies say, ‘let’s do this for you and make it easy,’ and they become the next big tech, which will be bigger big tech that will have more influence.”

Subsequently, Rijmenam prompt that “for us as a society, it is very important we educate ourselves that we don’t end up in that situation again, we don’t make the same mistake, and that we don’t sleepwalk into a future where it’s very easy to go online and do anything, and we don’t control our own data!”

He believes that that is the one alternative through the transition from Internet 2.0 to a 3D web. “We can really grab our own control. Because if we don’t do it now, then when we are in a world controlled by bigger tech. Then it will be too late then, and we won’t be able to change it anymore,” the skilled warned additional.

Training and consciousness

He has based a analysis institute for this training and consciousness to make “people digitally literate and that they think about what this all means to them. Because it’s such a massive transition,” Rijmenam who addressed the International Media Congress (GMC), which was organised by ADNEC Group in partnership with WAM, from fifteenth to seventeenth November.

The primary version of the GMC was held in Abu Dhabi beneath the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court docket.
Below the theme “Shaping the Future of the Media Industry”, the Congress had the participation from greater than 1,200 media sector pioneers, specialists, and influencers from six continents within the globe, with greater than 30 debates and workshops that includes over 162 globally famend audio system.