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In the final tenet, Furlan suggests that in “The same way that the web required a new way of thinking about information, the ideal metaverse requires a new way of thinking about computation. One of the ways this requirement manifests itself is by our proposal for the support of safe nomadic computation.” A nomadic program is an autonomous participant with similar “rights” of a human user. These programs can move from one server to the next without meaningful distinction between human operators and nomadic programs. They would carry their source code and internal state as they migrate between servers, and interact with users or improve the worlds visited <ref name=”5”></ref>. | In the final tenet, Furlan suggests that in “The same way that the web required a new way of thinking about information, the ideal metaverse requires a new way of thinking about computation. One of the ways this requirement manifests itself is by our proposal for the support of safe nomadic computation.” A nomadic program is an autonomous participant with similar “rights” of a human user. These programs can move from one server to the next without meaningful distinction between human operators and nomadic programs. They would carry their source code and internal state as they migrate between servers, and interact with users or improve the worlds visited <ref name=”5”></ref>. | ||
The Metaverse ideas have been developing for some time. It will be a new place to engage in e-commerce, and it will have an impact in all aspects of life. Probably, all the problems of the real world will be represented in the Metaverse too. Things like crime and harassment, that are already encountered in the internet currently. According to Tim Sweeney, the Metaverse’s virtual economy could exceed the real economy, having the potential to become a utopia or dystopia. A real world version of the Metaverse has the possibility of becoming far more pervasive and powerful than anything else before it <ref name=”8”></ref>. | The Metaverse ideas have been developing for some time. It will be a new place to engage in [[e-commerce]], and it will have an impact in all aspects of life. Probably, all the problems of the real world will be represented in the Metaverse too. Things like crime and harassment, that are already encountered in the internet currently. According to Tim Sweeney, the Metaverse’s virtual economy could exceed the real economy, having the potential to become a utopia or dystopia. A real world version of the Metaverse has the possibility of becoming far more pervasive and powerful than anything else before it <ref name=”8”></ref>. | ||
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