Hello everyone, I am Bittao. ChatGPT is very popular recently, and all kinds of hot searches are overwhelming. From the technology circle to the financial circle to the life circle, it seems that everyone is chatting about ChatGPT overnight. The development of AI has reached the moment when it is about to explode, and ChatGPT is closely combining the processing power of large technology companies with AI. This imaginary space is huge, which has accelerated the process of machines replacing humans.
AI is the Foundation of the Metaverse
With the explosion of AI technology and industry integration, the infrastructure of the Metaverse is gradually improving. Since Zuckerberg announced in October 21 that Facebook changed its name to Meta, the term Metaverse has become a hot topic around the world. Similar to ChatGPT today, everyone was imagining and discussing at that time. To this day, the metaverse is still a very controversial topic. Some people think it is worthless, and VR and AR have not developed so fast. Some people are very optimistic, thinking that this is the scene of the next era. And I personally have a different opinion on the metaverse than the public, and I expect to see it within 30 years.
Basic Construction of the Metaverse
Maybe some people are still a little confused about the word metaverse, but we are already deeply in the metaverse world, but we just don’t know it yet. When the year of masks is crazy, you can hold meetings and collaborate on the Internet at home, when the adrenaline rushes in the game, when we rely on the Internet for everything we need for food, clothing, housing, and transportation...human beings have slowly entered the world in the way of boiling frogs in warm water Metaverse. At present, we can only interact with mobile phones and computer screens. Later, we will increase the perception of various senses, including visual and tactile sensations.
Some people equate the metaverse with VR glasses, which is wrong in my opinion. There are many forms of interaction, and it doesn’t really matter whether it’s in the form of AR, VR or a brain-computer interface. The important thing is that in the online world, there is also a copy of the real world. And it is interactive and parallel. To achieve this kind of parallel universe-like world, a lot of infrastructure is needed.
The development stage of Metaverse is still in the stage of infrastructure construction. Our basic computing center, gigabit network, and various smart terminal devices, including mobile phones, smart homes, smart cities, smart factories, smart cars... When these foundations After the facilities are built, we still need blockchain technology to build fairness in the metaverse world, and we need a DAO organization recognized by everyone to achieve democratization and liberalization through technical means. In this way, the world is interesting, detached from the real world, which is what we call web 3. When the laws and regulations of our circle and the laws of the world are finished, this is considered to be the completion of the basic construction of the Metaverse.
You will find that all our current cutting-edge technologies are paving the way for the metaverse. AI makes the program more intelligent, allowing humans to focus on the business level to increase productivity; the blockchain allows everyone to participate, and makes data security and democratization a reality through technology; the Internet of Things makes the devices around us come alive , so that all objects have an interactive interface with people, which greatly improves the level of ultra-high-level automation; new energy allows the earth to achieve carbon neutrality, we no longer pollute the earth, and make the survival of all things on the earth a possibility A closed loop of continuous development...Many people say that our technology has reached a bottleneck, Moore's Law has expired, and the Internet has also reached a bottleneck. We don't have a next-generation revolution, and it will be silent for a long time. This sentence is only half true, and I think this is precisely the beginning of the next generation of human revolution. It is indeed difficult for us to roll out the next high-speed development in the segmented field, but once we combine these technologies, it will be immeasurable. This will be the greatest revolution in human history. This is the Metaverse !
Stages of development of the metaverse
Great innovations don’t happen overnight. I’m optimistic about the Metaverse, but it doesn’t mean that it will always develop upwards. On the contrary, I think it will even take a detour. It must be like other technologies, a spiral, step-by-step development. I have divided into three stages:
1. Basic stage
Estimated completion date: 2035. Mainly completed:
- Realize the intercommunication of the 10 Gigabit backbone network of global urbanization, the intercommunication of Gigabit networks, and the high-speed interconnection of 6G networks;
- AI is fully integrated into people's products, realizes multimedia and complex interaction, and has the comprehensive quality of college students;
- Blockchain technology has entered life, and a large number of scenarios have achieved fairness and justice through this technology, and have certain financial attributes;
- The world has reached its carbon peak and gradually achieved carbon neutrality. There are green plants in cities and new energy vehicles on the roads.
2. Parallel phase
Estimated completion date: 2040. Mainly completed:
- Everything is interconnected, AI is integrated into the machine, and all equipment is intelligent;
- Open an interactive parallel network, regardless of work and life can be carried out in the network;
- Forecasting and deduction, the machine will realize semi-autonomous and fully automatic production, and can predict and deduce the physical world and its own situation;
- Produces interactive glasses and sensing devices that work well and are cheap.
3. Final form
Estimated completion date: 2050. Mainly completed:
- The construction of the virtual world completes the basic laws and regulations and the basic machine of social operation;
- In addition to supplementing human nutrition, humans can always do everything in the virtual world;
- Human beings are highly civilized, have no shortage of food and energy, and focus more on spiritual needs;
- The world that combines virtual and real constitutes the home of our ultimate human existence.
Hello, Metaverse!
Finally, I will take you into a certain day in 2050:
when you wake up in the morning and want to go for a run in a suburban park, you can call out your self-driving car. You don't need any control at all, you can even have breakfast in the car. The cars are all connected to the local smart transportation center, so there will be no traffic jams and accidents. Everyone is dispatched by AI, and the distance in the city center is more than 100 miles. And the car is a tram, without any sound or heat, you can use voice to command your car at any time, and you can watch the episodes you didn't finish last night in the car. After 10 minutes, when you arrive at the park, you can look up and see the air quality, humidity, and temperature today. And combined with the world you see, there are smart tags on all objects. When you are running, the assistant will remind you of the best heart rate, and you can deeply view your various blood sugar, blood fat, blood pressure and other data.
After running, you call out your smart car and go home. At the desk, you can complete everything from study to work, even if you are working in a factory. All your work can be online, because everything is connected to the Internet and has basic cognition, and you only need to make some advanced decisions.
After work, you might want to go for a walk and put on a wearable. It will soon bring you to the banks of the Seine, let you feel the gentle wind in your ears, and there are people who come here to play like you on the road. You can communicate and interact with people from any country in real time. Just when you saw an equipment store in front of you, you wanted to go for a walk. Suddenly came an urgent notice: The factory has an emergency failure, please return to deal with it as soon as possible!
The metaverse does not allow human beings to get rid of the distress in reality, it just makes people's quality of life higher. Our quality of life has improved much compared to the last century, but our stress and distress will not decrease. Down-to-earth continuous progress is the theme of human existence, the world will continue to develop, and technology will also continue to improve. But what remains the same is our humanity, and our determination to explore the future.
Bit peach
February 8, 2023