Future Evolution: Merging of Internet with Reality

As of now, there are already bits and parts of technology like Ultrasonic Imaging technology, Brain-Computer Interface prototype systems, 3D Virtual reality graphics, etc that can be pooled together to form the next evolution of the internet – the 3D Web or in a more popular abbreviation – the Metaverse.

The question is when? And who will be the first. Many predict either Apple or Google or Microsoft or their closest rivals will be the first ones who will develop the first version of Metaverse. However, at this moment apparently their vision of the next evolutionary Internet is quite different from the concept of Metaverse.

This is because they envision the internet to be getting more mobile and “omnipresent” in our physical world. Such as getting our Mobile Phone, our TV, our Home alarm system or Refrigerator connected into the internet. All these revolve around making things more convenient for us to enable us to physically travel around the world.

All this is very nice and encouraging but simultaneously these giants may not (or not willing to) realise that the world environmental condition is actually going against physical travelling. This is because by physically travelling, we are burning more fuel that further pollutes our air, hence sending our world into destruction more rapidly.

WE HUMANS ARE BETTER OFF STAYING HOME AND LET OUR MOTHER NATURE RECUPERATE AND RECOVER FROM THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY OUR HUMAN FOREFATHERS.

Mobile internet does not help in preserving the environment even though we embrace what the environmentalist called “Green Computing” concept in our server setups.

Metaverse concept on a contrary does help preserve the environment. This is because Metaverse concept brings the world right into our living hall, thereby making physical travelling obsolete. We can go travelling to Paris for a shopping fiesta in the morning and then go surfing in the Bahamas in the afternoon all that without ever leaving the comfort of our homes. IF every human being in the world does this, it will help cut contribution to pollution by half (but of course the crude oil companies revenues by half too. If Metaverse concept came into existence, the crude oil by then would have cost USD0.01 per barrel, it will be happy news for every human beings on earth – except the Petrochemical sector)

IF in the future, global authorities both governmental and private bodies can joint-venture together to develop this new technology, then Metaverse will be coming into reality very soon. With the first crude version of Metaverse 1.0 it will take probably another decade or so to be refined into a more powerful Metaverse 2.0 whereby in the future people can just where a helmet or some device, lie back and their consciousness will be zapped into this Metaverse 2.0 where everything will be absolutely in realistic 3 Dimensional environment and they can interact with this Metaverse 2.0 environment as if they are in the real physical world. In there, everything is just as real as the real physical world, except that in this Metaverse 2.0 they can be anyone and anybody they wish (as long as they can pay for it).

Perhaps the entire Metaverse 2.0 system is a gigantic global computer network system that can trace, track and record all its users, so that no matter how the users made themselves to look like in this Metaverse 2.0, they can be easily identified to the actual user. Sort of like unique IP address that traces deep into each user’s DNA + Behavioural Brainwave Pattern System (ie., our Set of Behavioural Brainwave patterns with unique stimuli – that basically is the essence of our being, or our soul as some might call it), and each user can be accurately pinpointed in real time, to their exact location in the physical world. So that nobody ever dare to abuse Metaverse like they did in the World Wide Web.

Speaking of Behavioural Brainwave Pattern System (BBPS), perhaps in this future, with Metaverse 2.0, no one has to really die. Meaning, prior to death a person who can afford it, can have his or her BBPS be mapped into the Metaverse 2.0 system, which is sort of like an advanced version of “Cloud Computing”, and they can actually continue living and existing in the Metaverse 2.0 without any physical body in the outside real physical world. They can continue living and existing so long as their great-great grandchildren can pay for it.

So imagine, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to wear that helmet that zap our consciousness into this Metaverse 2.0 and visit your beloved grandpa or grandma in that little village home that is so beautifully set up in this ever realistic Metaverse 2.0?

If money permits, perhaps grandpa or grandma’s consciousness can be momentarily zapped into a life-like android version of themselves in the real physical world and visit our home in the real physical world over the weekend?

No matter what it is, I only have beautiful hope for the future of Internet evolution. What about you? Do you share the same dream as I do? What is your opinion on this?

CONVENIENT SPELLS DANGER

Do you know what is the problem with people nowadays? They are too easily drawn to convenience. Often they pay a high price later on as the consequence of their laziness. Take for instance the use of e-commerce websites that offers interactive chat features for their members to deal openly.

As interesting and convenient it may sound, but do you know often people abuse this and instead of closing the deal there and then, this interactive, open chatting feature allowed online crooks to skew the whole thing to an entirely different type of ending. Often ended up having some innocent people falling prey to their schemes.

I'm sure we all have heard a lot about innocent victims falling preyed to unscrupulous, creeps and crooks alike through the popular social networking and e-commerce websites that offers interactive chatting features.

Is it really the fault of these websites or was it because of our bad habits? I'd think it's a bit of both. However being a website operator, one should understand customers are king. So it's a wiser move (politically) to blame on ones own website instead on the customers.

Well the problem is, 99.9% of web operators don't bother. Well all except this e-commerce website I stumbled upon in the search engine. It claimed to be using an Interactive method for their buyer & seller members to bargain and deal.

Well initially I found it to be quite a hassle to use this website, especially when registering as a new member. It asked a lot of questions and it even had a survey questionnaire for us to fill. After going through all the hassle to register, I have to open up my e-mail to click a link for this website to activate my account.

After that, well it looks pretty easy to use. However, when I wanted to click on something to sell, I have to go through another hassle of uploading my image file, key in description of the product I want to sell, etc.

Once done., when people started to click onto my ad in there, it will take them into a panel for them to see my product, my price, the product description (and video as well - if I want to pay for it), and then there is this field that allows my potential buyer to key in their counter offer price, I'd then open my account and counter-offer back, so it goes ding-dong-ding-dong until both sides agreed to a price.

Then there is this problem, this website had its own internal currency called "bzd", sort of like credit points and the buyer have no choice but to fork out his/her credit card and buy these "bzd". Now most people would ask, why should I buy some credit points in which I'd use for only once? It's such a waste of time and money. Besides, I don't understand why this website claimed it's interactive when I cannot contact the buyers directly? There's no ICQ chat feature or anything like that. I got pissed off with this website.

So I decided to abandon the idea of continuing with this website and started to click away to some other more popular e-commerce websites. I posted my iPhone for sale and it's so much easier to post than the earlier one. Not very long after that, there are people who click onto my product ad and started enquiring.

I was very happy, the buyer contacted me directly through the e-mail address which I place onto my product ad. We met offline, in a restaurant and we negotiated and I agreed to sell my iPhone to him at a price which is half the price in the open market. He was delighted and so was I when I'm counting the cash he paid me.

He left and I went to bank in the money but the ATM machine rejected the notes. So I went to the counter, and the bank clerk told me that the cash I tried to bank in was fake. It's counterfeit and I got into quite a bit of trouble with the authority after that. Well luckily, I was later cleared.

So I learnt my lesson and started to use the good old auction websites, in fact the most popular one. I use credit card instead of agreeing to meet outside like I did earlier. This time I was a buyer because that what I do. I get products online cheap and sell it at a profit. It's not much but I can easily earn a couple of hundred bucks weekly.

So then there was this Monier watch that caught my eye.. I clicked on it, I bid for it only to find that someone else out-bidded me. Then my ego tells me to keep bidding higher. So I listen to my ego and bid until finally I was the winner. Whoa the feeling of triumph is just great. But that was short-lived. Soon I realised that my Monier watch wasn't coming after all. I complaint to the site admin but they referred me to their indemnity clause and said there's nothing much they can do about it. Because the seller was from overseas, there is nothing much I can do about it.

Another good lesson learnt - there are many crooks out there. After the bad experiences with the e-commerce and online bidding websites, I sort of gave up on this whole e-business thingy. Then I remembered that "cumbersome" e-commerce website which I had registered earlier and almost got a deal with a buyer there until I pulled out inadvertently.

I re-logged into this "cumbersome" website again to try my luck and as I started to get the hang of using its method of dealing, I realised all the cumbersomeness is actually protecting me from being cheated by online crooks like the ones I met earlier. By not enabling direct communication between me and my counterpart, there is no way for my counterpart to plan his cheats on me.

With the "bzd" credit points, I realised if sellers don't deliver the product, the administrator will revert back the credit points back to my account, in which I can cash out anytime.

Well, I bought and sold quite a number of products from this website now. Well I'm not trying to make it sound like I'm promoting it, but I think you should try it on your own. Below is the url hyperlink - http://www.bzhub.com/ArticleView.aspx?Code=_Demo

Can we really be millionnaires by selling online?

After a decade and half of Internet, we have heard too many claims from people who supposedly made their big bucks through internet but many made it sound too good to be true. So can we really be millionnaires by selling online?

Well sorry people. I don't mean to be a spoilt spot but NO! IF YOUR ONLY REASON IS TO GET RICH USING INTERNET, I'd advice you people to forget it there is no way no matter how creative you are to make Internet your lifetime career IF your only intention is to get filthy rich.

Internet stands for International Network. It is a place for information NOT money-minded vultures. No one will buy anything over the internet if they don't need anything. There has to be a need, an urge, or "pain" before anyone today will start googling it over. People use internet for information, not buying stuffs. It has to be information first, then followed by lots of comparison exercises and then only the right website with the right product and the right price, availability and location will get to sell something to the buyer in need.

In the West this is very common, but in Asia although the number of online buyers has steadily increased in the past 5 years or so, still there are a great majority of those who are sceptical about buying through the internet. Especially those in the developing countries in the South East Asia (with the exception of Singapore). So selling something through the internet is not as easy as what those authors had painted it to be. If you are new in e-commerce whereby you might have a simple "Web 1.0" type websites or you might have a blog or even a more sophisticated full fledge, "Web 2.0" or even "Web 3.0" website. You will discover the first thing you will face is the need to advertise your websites, blogs, etc online.

Nowadays, a great majority resort to Google because it commands the largest search engine market in the world, leaving the world number 2 - Yahoo! way behind and its prepaid option of Adwords makes it the first and only choice for most "netrepreneurs". However, you'd soon realise you are wasting thousands of bucks on worthless clicks from people who had no intention to buy from you at all.

So what do we do? I have read a good book written by Heather Lutze, called "The Findability Formula - The Easy, Non-technical Approach to Search Engine Marketing", published by John Wiley & Sons Inc - that show you how you can find the right keywords and ads that increases the chance for internet searchers to click into your website and buy something.

If you are interested you can google it or you can head straight to the bookstore and enquire about. Browse through it before buying, see if it suite you or not. Well it worked for me though not sure about you. Anyhow prior to selling something online, we need to understand and master how online shoppers behave. Next we need to master the skills to write compelling adwords campaign and planning your keywords correctly before you can start wondering when you'd be a millionnaire selling stuffs online.

Anyone of you have any thing else to add or comment ?