Mark Zuckerberg is the most unnoticed and underrated entrepreneur in the world.
I was listening to a podcast of Gary and Mark and some of his words were really jaw-dropping. Gary is always very straightforward and profound with his questions but I was amazed and scared at the same time while listening to Mark's answers. A part of his answers reads - "Facebook, I started it in 2004. I think Apple was probably already working on their iPhone design by then. It came out in 2007. We didn't really get to shape what the smartphone was. We built a lot of the most used experiences for it, but it grew at the same time.
And because of that, I feel like the smartphone sort of grew in a way that it's somewhat limiting in terms of the type of social experiences that you could have. I feel like there's a lot of things that I would love to build that we can't build because we're kind of constrained into this little rectangle and policies that some other company's set.
So that's a part of, for me, why I have so much passion about helping to bring about this next platform shift and accelerating it because I think the sooner we get to virtual and augmented reality, the better, the more magical these social experiences are gonna be. And I just think our platforms should be designed around people, interacting with each other. And that's like how we process the world as people. And that's just not how phones are designed.
About NFTs and Web 3.0, I think the atomic unit in the metaverse is going to be about you and your stuff and your friends and your connection. So you're gonna have your avatar and you're gonna have your digital clothing and your digital tools. And unlike apps today that are all designed to be a little bit siloed, and you have to do all this extra work to get them to work together, in the metaverse, I think it's going to be fundamentally more interoperable where your fundamental experiences that you are embodied in your identity, your digital avatar, all your stuff.
And I think as a user of this, your natural expectation is going to be that you can bring all your stuff in between all these experiences very seamlessly. So I think that that's going to be really exciting."
"...we're kind of constrained into this little rectangle and policies that some other company's set." This line hit me like a thousand stones on my face. So many people think that this simple rectangle is already changing our lives in a very profound way that we are constantly being unconscious about the fundamental elements of our life and its experience. If just a virtual 2D platform can impact human life this drastically in just a decade, I wonder what will happen if augmented reality and virtual reality technologies really integrate their position with our social transaction in the upcoming days? When it will be a box rather rectangle, what the hell we are going to do with our fundamental life experiences. The graphics and 3d world of any game nowadays is far better than the original world as we know. I mean NFT is literally here and it is affecting the whole web 3.0 ecosystem with every blink. Maybe it will be so amazing but at the same time, it is scary and maybe..... maybe... If I feel I will try to discuss this more in future days. Tata.
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