Sundar

“While paper money will no doubt remain in circulation as a residual medium of exchange for the poor and computer-illiterate, money for high-value transactions will be privatized.”
― James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

“In time, it will become clear that many of the leaders in the Metaverse weren’t even mentioned in this book—perhaps because they were too small to be of note, or unknown to its author. Some hadn’t even been created let alone thought up. An entire generation of Roblox-natives is only now on the cusp on adulthood, and it’s likely they, not Silicon Valley, will create the first great game that has thousands (or tens of thousands) of concurrent users, or blockchain-based IVWP. Whether motivated by Web3 principles, emboldened by the trillion-dollar opportunity the Metaverse provides, or simply unable to sell to GAFAM due to regulatory scrutiny, these founders will ultimately displace at least one member of the GAFAM five.”
― Matthew Ball, The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything

“Gold itself is an asset for the holder and a liability for nobody else; it represents the accumulated energy that was used to extract it from the earth and refine it into usable form, for which it has many applications.”
― Lyn Alden, Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better

“Apple’s mobile ecosystem has 60% of smartphone share in the United States and 80% share among teenagers, and over two-thirds of mobile gaming revenues globally.”
― Matthew Ball, The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything