Disruptive Technology | The Next Big Thing

Silicon Valley is Ditching Social Media and Betting Big on the Metaverse. This is How We Can Benefit from it.

There is sunrise and there is sunset. Immersive user experience is the battleground.

Aldric Chen
J29Creative
Published in
4 min readAug 14, 2021

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A person with an Occulus headset and working.
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Blockchain technology, Web 3.0, Non-Fungible Tokens, Bitclout.

They used to be the Next Big Thing. Today, they are here. We are trying to figure out how to best use them to create content, grow our business, and make a living.

Social media used to be the in-thing.

We scroll through images, texts, eagerly waiting for fresh content from our favorite, top influencer to be published.

Today, quick scrolls are what we do.

Now, the Metaverse is coming.

This terminology was popularised by Mark Zuckerberg recently in Facebook’s quarterly earnings results.

“Facebook has many pressing problems, from proposed antitrust legislation to accusations that the company is contributing to vaccine misinformation. But when CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined a recent conference call with analysts to discuss its latest quarterly results, much of the focus was on something far removed…

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Aldric Chen
J29Creative

24x Top Writer (as of June 2023). Serial eavesdropper. I capture interesting & uncomfortable real-life retirement / work-life stories the way they are.