Most people think “the metaverse” is a virtual place. Like in the movie Ready Player One or a virtual world, like Minecraft, Roblox. Jay Jayamohan writes in his newest blog for The Times of India that the metaverse is the moment in time where our digital life is worth more to us than our physical life.
In the blog, Meta: Is it all a Maya?, he writes that this is not an overnight shift but a gradual change that’s been happening for the last decade or two. Every important part of our life is going digital. Read the column here https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/innovate-or-die/meta-is-it-all-a-maya/
Jayamohan is the Executive Director of the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. He leads the effort that strategically positions HU to have a greater impact – economic & social – by having innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs coming together with students and faculty to collaborate on ideas and solve problems. He is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded RollStream (acquired by GXS now OpenText), JobNavs and Synteras (acquired by Akima Corp), raised tens of millions in venture capital and won numerous accolades including ‘top supply and demand chain vendor and Washington Technology Fast 50 firm. He also teaches Innovation & Strategy at George Mason University School of Business.
Learn more about CIE and Jay Jayamohan: https://cie.harrisburgu.edu/meet-jay-jayamohan-executive-director-of-hus-new-center-for-innovation-entrepreneurship/
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