Meet Me in the Metaverse #TechVision 10 The answer to these questions current business is going away – just as an consumption. While the company is one Similar to the beginning of the digital era, the and others is a resounding “yes.” online web presence didn’t remove the need of the largest digital payments solutions on companies that accelerate through the next for physical locations. But like enterprises back the market today, it’s clear they believe the wave of technology disruption will be those then needed to create new revenue streams, future of payments may soon start to change who readily embrace the changes the future Just like in the early years of the web, businesses rethink how they augment their operations, – or at least get bigger. holds. The good news? This time enterprises are racing toward a future utterly different from and contend with a host of new and disruptive have greater warning of what’s to come and the one they were designed for. Over the next competitors, businesses today will also need to Or think about Tesla. First the company there’s still time to get ahead – but they need to decade we will witness a complete transformation reimagine every dimension of their enterprise succeeded in proving the viability of selling start making decisive technology investments of nearly every environment that enterprises from operating models to their core value electric vehicles in today’s automotive market. today. The goal is to ignite the digital foundation currently do business across. The way the proposition. And forward-thinking leaders But now their technology investments and enterprises have been steadily putting in place: internet operates and how we experience the are already getting started. projects are all steps to build pieces of a future finally picking partners to build a digital twin, digital world; the technology that propagates that no one is selling against yet: a world of going beyond data and analytics to use AI in across the physical world and the command it Consider how in late 2021, Square founder smart cities filled with electric and autonomous more visible and collaborative ways, or launching gives us over our environment; how human-like, Jack Dorsey renamed the company to “Block,” vehicles. Their vision of the future drives and the “moonshot” project that increasingly feels collaborative, and productive our interactions with 9 signaling its focus on the future. Shortly informs the machines they build and sell today, mission critical. Only with a mature and well- machines can be; and even the very outer limit of after, the company announced plans to build and the resulting successes in today’s market oiled digital engine will enterprises be prepared computers’ capabilities, are all being upended. an open bitcoin mining system, aiming to are beta tests for their leadership in tomorrow’s to participate in, or even build, the new business make bitcoin mining more distributed and world of autonomous vehicles. environments and worlds everyone will The ground is transforming beneath us and efficient, and to address challenges commonly soon need to be part of. many of the competitive moats and advantages faced by the bitcoin mining community like businesses have worked hard to erect are mining rig availability, high prices, and power beginning to recede. This doesn’t mean your Introduction // WebMe // Programmable World // The Unreal // Computing the Impossible 11