In this episode of the Step into the Metaverse Podcast, I had a chat with Christiaan Eisberg, the Founder and CEO of Straight Fire, a Web3 start-up bridging the real world with the metaverse, through building the first NFT Social dApp and unique NFT collections. He is a metaverse explorer, serial entrepreneur, and experienced operational and commercial executive, specialised in brand building, client management, digital commerce, and organisational transformation. He has a 20-year background in Fortune 500 companies and start-ups, in heavy industries and consumer brands, in the West and the Ea ..read more

In this episode of The Step into the Metaverse Podcast, I had a chat with Jon Radoff, the Co-Founder and CEO of Beamable, the creator-centric platform for building live games. An internationally recognized entrepreneur and technology visionary, Mr Radoff has grown businesses in the fields of computer gaming, social networking, advertising and enterprise technology. Before founding Beamable, Mr Radoff built one of the first commercial games on the Internet, took a web content management company public, grew a game advertising network, and launched mobile games played by millions of people, incl ..read more

In this episode, I explore more of the world I exist in, the Metaverse. Looking into where it was, where it is, and more importantly, where it is going. From virtual real estate and real-life virtual spaces, to battle royal social spaces selling digital fashion, and copyright infringements for Roblox, I aim to look into every corner of this digital world, shining a light on exactly what is going on and taking a closer look at what all of these ones and zeros mean for our public and private lives.   Hopefully, by taking a closer look at this new frontier, we will get a better understanding ..read more

A few months ago, I published my fourth book, Step into the Metaverse, which is meant as a blueprint for an open metaverse. As part of this book, I did nearly 100 in-depth interviews with the stakeholders building the open metaverse. I have turned a selection of these interviews into a new podcast, called ‘Step into the Metaverse’. If you are interested in learning from the leaders, thought leaders and founders building the open metaverse, subscribe to my podcast on your favourite podcast platform, and you will be notified when new interviews are published. The first episode will be published ..read more

In a world of digital landlords and nano-sensors, the ones and zeros are king. In this episode of The Digital Speaker series, I am going to explore an emerging trend in the digital sphere; an increasing aversion to over-digitised tech and why we may be on the cusp of an analogue renaissance. After, I will go to the other end of the digital spectrum and examine how the digital world I exist in, could one day be worth more than land in the real world. Then, for the final segment in today’s digital download, I am going to take a look at bioinformatics. What is it and what it spells for the digita ..read more

If a human can use a brain-computer interface, can an AI use a computer-brain interface? In the 14th episode of The Digital Speaker series, I am going to take a more in-depth look into some of the latest breakthroughs and innovations in bioinformatics and what this means for our society. In this new episode, I will also delve back into cyberpunk and take another look at brain-computer interfacing. I will be exploring the latest medical, military and gaming advancements, taking a peek at what the future might hold for this cutting edge industry. And so, what are we waiting for? It is time to st ..read more

Today, I am going to discuss the end of Liberalism and how Digitalism will replace it as the world’s first, true global political doctrine; a story where governments, companies and citizens battle for data. In the 9th episode of The Tech Journal, The Digital Speaker will delve into and explore the positive and negative aspects of an economy run on data. Taking a closer look at some potential futures that are awaiting us depending on which direction we choose to go, which can either empower or enslave citizens. The rise of Digitalism is unstoppable and depending on the country you live in, can ..read more

The Digital Speaker covers the digital world from inside the digital world and he was interviewed by Saana Azzam, founder of MENA Speakers, on the future of work and the organization of tomorrow ..read more

In the 6thepisode of The Tech Journal, The Digital Speaker discusses algorithmic management; what it is, how it helps, how it hurts, what the future holds, and how it will affect you personally. So, put your feet up, get comfortable and let us start speaking digital. Algorithmic management is the use of computer algorithms and artificial intelligence techniques to manage a team of human employees. By collecting massive quantities of data, in particular data about employee performance, algorithmic management seeks to automate large portions of the managerial decision-making process. Since it is ..read more

In the 8th episode of The Tech Journal, The Digital Speaker explores the digital realm, taking a closer look at CLIP and DALL-E, the latest networks to come out of OpenAI, ethics in computing, and how neural networks solved a 50-year-old biological problem. We will have a look at what our good friends at OpenAI have been working on since the release of GPT-3. I want to explore CLIP and Dall-E, neural networks with a penchant for images.  From there, I will explore what ethical issues neural networks raise, and how it is time we start moving digital ethics out of the classrooms and into th ..read more