WebMe #TechVision THE BIG PICTURE The internet is being reimagined, and enterprises need to be ready for what comes next. In 2021, we saw Facebook change its name to Meta and shift its focus from social media to the metaverse, which it considers “the successor to the mobile internet.”31 Rather than viewing digital content, people Microsoft metaverse technology stack, are raising new possibilities for what data 32 will live and be present within it. And Meta which will let enterprises build apps on top people possess, how and where it’s stored, isn’t the only company talking about this. of digital twins, bringing the physical and and the ways it gets shared with others. 35 Epic Games, whose CEO has said that digital worlds together. Daily unique active wallets connected people are tired of how today’s internet to decentralized apps (dapps) increased operates, has raised $1 billion to support But when it comes to the future of the sevenfold over the past year, an estimated its own metaverse vision, which would be internet, we’re not just watching metaverses 300 million people own cryptocurrencies, and akin to a massive online playground where start to form. Web3, an encompassing term according to market research firm Blockdata, people can mingle freely with brands and for emerging efforts to build a “distributed” 81 out of the top 100 public companies are 33,34 each other. Microsoft also has skin in the layer to the internet, is ripe with innovation using blockchain, 65 of which are actively game: The company is bringing its suite of and new applications too. Digital wallets developing blockchain solutions.36,37,38 Azure offerings together in what it calls the like MetaMask, Trust Wallet, and Fortmatic Introduction // WebMe // Programmable World // The Unreal // Computing the Impossible 23