Ideagen Global - Catalyze Magazine - October 2023
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all content, events, articles, and collaborations of Ideagen Global. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale.
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all content, events, articles, and collaborations of Ideagen Global. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale.
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“WHAT IS THE<br />
METAVERSE?”<br />
WITH COSTANTINO ROSELLI<br />
FOUNDER AND CHIEF METAVERSE OFFICER<br />
NETIZENS (NTZNS)<br />
George Sifkakis: What is the metaverse? We all have an idea of meta and the metaverse and<br />
what we think it is, but what is the metaverse, why is it inevitable, and why do we need it?<br />
Costantino Roselli: This is the million-dollar question because everybody has a different<br />
answer. The reason that they have different answers is that they see the metaverse as a tool. But<br />
the metaverse is not a platform or tool; it is an idea. The metaverse is an attitude, a revolution.<br />
You can compare it with the industrial revolution. So when we have the metaverse revolution, it<br />
is coming to destroy the perfect that the industrial revolution brought and enable the impossible.<br />
Why is this happening, and why is it inevitable? After the millennium, on the first year's eve, the<br />
world was not destroyed, and the apocalypse never happened. However, three events that<br />
followed in the 20 years after that changed humanity's goals.<br />
The major events were global warming and climate change, the recession, which was the first<br />
time we realized the financial system we have is not stable, and the pandemic, which was the first<br />
time that we saw that we are still vulnerable to natural causes. It's not something we only faced a<br />
hundred years ago. At the same time, we've had a technological evolution, three things coming<br />
together, which is the Web2, a miracle of the world because it was the first time that we could<br />
ask a question to millions of people and have an answer back, which makes us all media. The<br />
second is blockchain. If Web2 Two makes us media, blockchain will make us the bank, and that<br />
comes with great responsibility because that is the true freedom of the people. The third was the<br />
influencers and the rise of creators because it was the first time that people didn't need any<br />
permission. They didn't need someone to pick them up. The microphone and the stage, it's all<br />
there, and if they want to broadcast, they can do it.<br />
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