Facebook Monopoly Imploding

Competition, miscalculations, and regulatory scrutiny have all but killed the advertising giant's dreams of diversifying its business and rolling up the digital world into its platform.

For years, the definition of success for many tech employees has been getting a job at a FAANG company (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google). Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google, meanwhile, are often the five major companies people think of when they think of "big tech."

But there is evidence that Facebook—once a dominant monopoly rightly blamed for all sorts of societal ills—is on the precipice of dropping out of this group through years of sheer mismanagement, a failure to innovate, setting money on fire in pursuit of a metaverse that seemingly no one wants, a vulnerable business model that Apple is squarely taking aim at, and upstart competitors like TikTok that the company seemingly has no answer for. 

What seemed impossible just a year or two ago—that Facebook will become just another tech company, more or less—now seems like a very real possibility.  READ MORE...

Metaverse Education

The term Metaverse was invented by Neal Stephenson in a science fiction novel, almost 30 years ago. He envisioned lifelike avatars who met in 3D buildings and other virtual reality environments. Over the past couple of years, the metaverse has begun representing a progressive convergence of digital experiences. This upcoming domain is perceived as a graphically rich virtual space, with some degree of multi-dimensional aspect that will allow people to work, play, shop, socialize, and bring humans back together in this virtual world.

Big tech companies are building metaverse projects to utilize the benefits of the metaverse. Companies like the Meta Platforms build in the metaverse by using its world-leading software and solutions. Other big tech companies are building blocks with the help of advanced technologies like augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality. The digital world is garnering millions of dollars worth of investment to foresee the future of the internet.  SOURCE:  AnalyticsInsights.net

According to Loma Linda University, the best way to achieve student knowledge retention is to teach what you know to someone else, followed by learning by doing...  However, most instructors and college professors still teach via lecture notes, PowerPoint, and teaching assistants who help themselves more than they are helping their students...

While big tech is looking at the metaverse as a way to generate profits, teaching and training organizations should look at the universe as a way to not just accelerate the teaching of employees but increase their retention of knowledge abilities.

A student surgeon can practice surgeries in the metaverse for as long as is needed in order to perfect a procedure...  so, would not the same concept apply to a supervisor who has to talk with disruptive employees...  or take classes during their lunch hour?

A NASCAR team can use the metaverse to help perfect their tire-changing abilities as can a Broadway actor use the metaverse to help learn their lines and perfect their body language.

The metaverse is not just a tool for Mark Zuckerberg to increase his wealth.