WebMe #TechVision THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR We’re Finding a New Way Forward, and Not Turning Back While much of this technology is still in the early adopter phase, there are signals that the world is steadily progressing towards this future. Shifts in the digital world over the past are too. A study in late 2020 found that daily 18 months have made it clear that a “wait and time spent consuming digital content in Europe see” approach will before long become “look, and the U.S. had doubled since the start of the 60 it already happened.” pandemic. And in the third quarter of 2021, NFT sales surged to $10.7 billion, over eight 61 It took just 15 years to go from the launch times higher than the previous quarter. The, at of the first iPhone to a world with 6.6 billion times astronomical, value of individual NFT sales 58 smartphones. Compare this to a shift we’re is likely tied to hype, but the growth in attention starting to see today. In December 2021, the is creating a community of web users who are Oculus app rose to the top of mobile app store comfortable spending on purely digital assets charts – becoming the top app in the U.S. and with no real-world manifestation, and perhaps 59 a top five app in 14 countries. And not only is more importantly – learning to think about the technology that people and enterprises have data in a new way. access to beginning to change – their habits Introduction // WebMe // Programmable World // The Unreal // Computing the Impossible 33