I continue to read through the book and chime in thoughts. Still a fascinating book, and highly recommended! Ball skips over the standardization of the mobile phone and more importantly the networks that power it, which were conceived with goals entirely unrelated to the goals of Internet protocols. While I wished that my "alma mater" Nokia had led the way toward a shared spectrum approach, Nokia and all of the 3GPP process achieved monumental radio networking capabilities t

Persistence in The Metaverse? The Metaverse by Matthew Ball... I'm continuing to read, learn and enjoy this great book. I take issue with one part: (see below) Will the interactions we take with the m'verse be recorded and preserved? If they are, will all parts of the m'verse support the recollection of our interactions in the same way? Persistence is in some ways, the opposite of virtual. In the real world we deal with matter and energy, actions and use of force. Ball uses t

Metaverse Prognostications and Proscriptions