The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While the metaverse sprang to public attention with the renaming of Facebook earlier this year, the phrase was coined back in 1996 in Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash, in which the science fiction author described an immersive version of the internet that was accessed via virtual reality. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 84

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them. Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index.

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Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

To create those conditions regulators relied on the tools given to them during the first era of antitrust, from 1900–1920. Market forces could naturally correct the episodic instances of market power, and could do so far better than the messes caused by government intervention.

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