I have two electromagnetism and optics lab experiment reports left to be completed, and I am listening to Dreams Money Can Buy by Drake as I start typing this out. I check my phone. Two messages from work, four from friends. I check the news; it says “Barbados to embrace metaverse after cutting ties with the British monarchy.’ Metaverse? A concept I have been thinking of for years seems so weird to read now. Well, I had it wrong the whole way here.

I remember watching this BBC Horizon episode where Arthur Clarke talked about his vision ahead. He talked about his predictions for the future. The Knowledge Explosion it was called. I also remember reading Snow Crash on popular peer pressure; I did enjoy it. I have enjoyed multiplayer games of my time. I spent quite some free time for nearly three months watching YouTuber Zerkaa’s GTA RolePlay series. I spent almost a year and a half attending classes via popular video conferencing solutions. Well, which one hits the closest to what the road ahead becomes? You take a step back and think, how far has society come in the past 50 years? No, I am not talking moral contentions or political decisions; those topics are far above my headedness. I am talking purely in terms of technology. Personal computers in 77, camcorders in 83, online shopping services in 94, and online social networks in 97 and onto commercial tethered headsets in the 10s. The graph has been exponential and will remain to be.

When you bring the entirety of existence onto the internet, you change things. By a lot. You are making new beginnings and clamping down on old industries. A network once started for military purposes is now a whole industry in itself. And the next step is moving into it. As weird as it sounds, as it is being portrayed, it is the next logical step. No, I am not talking buying NFTs and living in colourful digital worlds. Those are just the initial selling points; data ends to try out stuff. You do not aim to get to live in a world where you can move around and play games with your friends. You strive to integrate the essence of technology, of the internet, in every life process. Why? Well, because innovation is the sole aim of man.

I am sure you have heard of this. Mankind was born on earth; it was never meant to die here. Yeah, Interstellar. My top 10 movies that. But the point still holds. Maybe as severe, maybe not. I do live my digital life with significant dues. I see people quarrelling over the lost past and its simplicity and its essence. I see people believing the world is against them, and it is all a giant plot by the people that have made it. I see people pressed under their own desire to seek stability quailing to the idea of losing jobs when the world adapts to its next stage. There is some strife in their sayings and there is some harmony, but that is not how it works.

Just the other day my silly mind wanted to do away with trees. I tried to think of a way to replicate its use case in a lesser space. I was abruptly shut down by my dad’s perception of the comfort tress provides to human beings, the relationship formed over the years, and how unrealistic my attempt at replacing them was. I mean, a man can only dream?

At this point in this piece of writing, I wonder if I want to go into technical details about the future of the internet or leave that for another day. You know what, let us make this into a mini-series. Will give me something to write about over the winter break.

Let us start a series, one with practical work. There is this competition that my campus started; you form a team of more than two and develop something innovative on the campus. The admin pays you to make it. The thing made has to serve a use for the campus, and you are regularly checked. I did think of trying to integrate all facilities available on campus in a central digital portal to show usage and free capacity at events of the day. For example, you know at all times how many people are playing on the lawn tennis courts, and you can plan your play accordingly. But the catch is, I do not have the time and desire to pitch it and build it up. I might give the idea to someone else and ask them to carry it out.

Sorry, I just got a bit carried away over there, back to the series. Let us think and predict something(s) that can be big in the future and try and build it. Also, write progress updates over it. Here. I also want to write a piece over this book I have been reading lately. I might write one on my rocketry adventures as well.