Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 596 g
The Road to the Multiverse
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 596 g
ISBN: 978-1-119-89854-2
Verlag: Wiley
This book weaves emerging themes in future 6G and Next G networks carefully together. It points to three spheres of contexts with different narratives for the year 2030 and beyond, in which the coming Metaverse as the precursor of the future Multiverse can be embedded naturally. The book aims at providing the reader with new cross-disciplinary research material, ranging from communication and computer science to cognitive science, social sciences, and behavioral economics, for building a deeper Metaverse. It will be instrumental in helping the reader find and overcome some of the most common 6G and Next G blind spots.
Modern networks are more than communication and computer science. They may be better viewed as techno-social systems that exhibit complex adaptive system behavior and resemble biological superorganisms. 6G and especially Next G should go beyond continuing the linear incremental 6G=5G+1G mindset of past generations of mobile networks. To this end, the book:
- Helps readers inquire into new areas of knowledge or understanding that they didn’t have or didn't pay attention to find their 6G/Next G blind spots
- Highlights the unique potential benefits of the virtual world for society in that it provides a useful extension of the real-world economy by compensating for its well-known market failures, e.g., rising income inequality
- Provides a comprehensive description of the original Metaverse vision and highlights the different Metaverse components, applications, open research challenges, and early Metaverse deployment examples from both industry and academia
- Describes how the Multiverse goes beyond the Metaverse origins and explores the importance of experience innovation since experiences play a central role in the Metaverse
- Explains Web3 and the emerging field of token engineering and tokenization, i.e., the process of creating tokenized digital twins via programmable tokens, which are viewed as the killer application of Web3 networks for creating technology-enabled social organisms and restoring tech-driven common goods
- Reviews anticipated 6G paradigm shifts and elaborates on the difference between 6G and Next G research, including Next G Alliance's audacious goals and their symbiotic relationship between technology and a population's societal and economic needs
- Doubles down on the mutually beneficial symbiosis between digitalization and biologization for our possible evolution into future metahumans with infinite capabilities by making us smarter and creating a fundamentally new form of sociality in the Metaverse and Multiverse as well as the future stigmergy enhanced Society 5.0 by leveraging on time-tested self-organization mechanisms borrowed from nature
- Presents a variety of different concepts of the true nature of reality that bring us closer to the original Metaverse vision and explains how 6G, Next G, and the Metaverse may eventually pave the way to the peak-experience machine that democratizes access to the upper range of human experiences
- Touches on the possible transition from communication to services beyond communication, most notably the cross-cultural phenomenon of communitas in anthropology and its increasing degrees of perceived connectedness with others, the world, and oneself, given the importance of creating a deep sense of community in the Metaverse
Written for students, network researchers, professionals, engineers, and practitioners, 6G and Onward to Next G: The Road to the Multiverse explores the latest Internet developments, with a particular focus on 6G and Next G networks in the context of the emerging Metaverse and future Multiverse as the successors of today’s mobile Internet that has defined the last two decades.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
About the Author xiv
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Acronyms xviii
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 Toward 6G: A New Era of Convergence 1
1.2 Fusion of Digital and Real Worlds: Multiverse vs. Metaverse 5
1.3 The Big Picture: Narratives for 2030 and Beyond 11
1.4 Purpose and Outline of Book 17
Chapter 2 Metaverse: The New North Star 37
2.1 Origins 38
2.2 Early Deployments 44
2.3 Key Enabling Technologies 49
2.4 Definition(s) of the Metaverse 56
2.5 Metaverse Economy and Community: Gamified Experiences 64
Chapter 3 The Multiverse: Infinite Possibility 67
3.1 Experience Innovation on the Digital Frontier 67
3.2 The Multiverse 69
3.3 Beyond the Metaverse Origins: Into the Future 74
Chapter 4 6G Vision and Next G Alliance Roadmap 77
4.1 6G Vision: Recent Progress and State of the Art 79
4.2 NSF: Next G Research 92
4.3 Next G Alliance Roadmap 93
Chapter 5 6G Post-Smartphone Era: XR and Hybrid-Augmented Intelligence 101
5.1 XR in the 6G Post-Smartphone Era 101
5.2 Hybrid-Augmented Intelligence 114
Chapter 6 Web3 and Token Engineering 131
6.1 Emerging Web3 Token Economy 131
6.2 Backend Revolution 132
6.3 Technology-Enabled Social Organisms 132
6.4 Tokens 133
6.5 Mechanism Design and Token Engineering 138
Chapter 7 From Robonomics to Tokenomics 141
7.1 Robonomics 141
7.2 Blockchain Oracles and On-Chaining 142
7.3 Blockchain-Enabled Trust Game 143
7.4 On-Chaining Oracle for Networked N-Player Trust Game 150
7.5 Playing the N-Player Trust Game with Persuasive Robots 155
7.6 Tokenomics 161
Chapter 8 Society 5.0: Internet As If People Mattered 165
8.1 Human Nature: Bounded Rationality and Predictable Irrationality 166
8.2 Society 5.0: Human-Centeredness 167
8.3 The Path (DAO) to a Human-Centered Society 168
8.4 From Biological Superorganism to Stigmergic Society 171
8.5 Biologization: Exiting the Anthropocene and Entering the Symbiocene 176
Chapter 9 Metahuman: Unleashing the Infinite Potential of Humans 179
9.1 Becoming Human: The Biological Uniqueness of Humans 179
9.2 Implications of Biological Human Uniqueness for Metaverse 185
9.3 MetaHuman Creator: Building a More Realistic Virtual World 189
9.4 The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes 193
9.5 Simulated Reality: The Simulation Hypothesis 195
9.6 Metareality and Metahuman 196
Chapter 10 Opportunities vs. Risks 201
10.1 The "New New Normal" and Upcoming T Junction 202
10.2 Opportunities 207
10.3 Risks 215
10.4 Team Human: From Communications to Communitas 220
Chapter 11 Conclusion and Outlook 233
11.1 Today's Life in "Parallel Universes" 233
11.2 The Road Ahead to the Future Multiverse: 6G, Next G, and the Metaverse 235
11.3 Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance 247
References 252
Epilogue 253
Index 257
