Pascal Bollon

Tagged: Trust

access to the metaverse

The Metaverse and My Access

The metaverse will decide what you can do, where you can go and what you can see. It will make your reality tailor-made. It will set your access rights. As the metaverse will merge all digital and physical realities, checks and balances are needed.

The Metaverse and My Identity

Registration to the metaverse defines you and what you can access, like a passport. A unique online identifier is needed. Should social media companies assume this authority?

You, Me and the Metaverse – part 2

Is the metaverse just a smokescreen for Facebook trying to divert from their whistleblowing scandal? Why bother about it at all?
The metaverse is not only a tech discussion. It has very far-reaching consequences for you, and me.

what is the metaverse

You, Me and the Metaverse – part 1

What is the metaverse? With no satisfying definition, vision or even explanation out there, I decided to do the analysis. Here is my conclusion.

Afghanistan, graveyard of accountability

Kabul falls in days. The leader flees. The world shrugs. No-one felt locally accountable enough to defend what was built.
Power without personal accountability ultimately leads to the illusion of a democratic state.
With great power comes …no responsibility.

The end of implicit trust

Intellectual authorities lost our implicit trust.
Contrary to what is often peddled, this is not primarily due to social media, internet, conspiracy theories or fake news, but to the failure of the authorities themselves, to live-up to and live-by the expectations they created.

Talking about “Meh” generation – 丧世代

  Ever since there are families, tribes, clans, nations, each generation is just so much better than the next one, and the previous one. Actually, each is so exceptional that it is simply a miracle that humanity survived at all, each generation, without known exception, being, systematically and uniquely feckless,...