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The future lies beyond tech – a long(er) read

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Hanna Kahlert
metaverse
NFTs
VR
As entertainment companies start planning their next big steps for the coming year, the success and failure of their strategic decisions will hinge on one big, and perhaps surprising, existential question : is this it for the tech industry? Planning for 2023 seems to mean planning for disruption, and this is no easy thing to do – especially given the changes already wrought by the last three years of predominately virtual working.
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Why Instagram will introduce NFTs to the gig economy in a big way

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Hanna Kahlert
Facebook
Meta
metaverse
In a conversation at SXSW, Mark Zuckerberg dropped that Instagram was going to be incorporating NFTs in the ‘near term’, pending some technological tweaks. While he was sparse on the detail, initial stages would likely allow users to bring their existing NFTs on the platform, and later on, potentially it would become possible to mint NFTs on the platform itself.
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