Looking back three thousand years, human beings today have countless abilities that seemed close to gods in ancient times.

We observe the natural universe, discover, learn and imitate, and constantly improve today's natural science. And mathematics is called the science of infinity

(Hermann Weyl (1968). "Gesammelte Abhandlungen"), the most important formal science ever created by man. Mathematics is not a part of nature, but it can create four-dimensional, five-dimensional... even infinite-dimensional spaces. We can imagine, understand, and even simulate, but never touch.

To this day, the metaverse is an important technology to help human beings to ascend the dimension from the natural universe.

The 21st century is the century when human beings migrate to the virtual world.

The origin of the metaverse comes from the 1992 novel "Avalanche" written by writer Neal Stephenson.

In "Avalanche", the real world is a cyberpunk scene, while in the metaverse, it carries human knowledge, entertainment and the entire spiritual civilization. Our physical universe today is three-dimensional, bound by countless physical rules. Based on our understanding of the physical world, we have all of today's science and today's material civilization.

However, the arrival of the Metaverse will restructure the dimensions of our world. We can do many things that violate the rules of physics but conform to the logic of the code. In today's physical world, time is irreversible, energy is conserved, and life lives on negative entropy. These are all true, at least today.

However, in the metaverse, we can create the rules of our own spiritual civilization through codes. In the Metaverse, time can be a state, a process, or a value. All objects can be defined by the property of time, just like the apple in Doctor Strange. Apples in the metaverse, in addition to the normal apple traits, we can add the definition of time. For the code, it's just adding an attribute in the structure. However, for the natives of the Metaverse, time is reversible. The time that acts on Apple is like a progress bar, which can be dragged and dropped at will.

Breaking through the limitations of physical rules is a rare and common thing in the Metaverse. We cannot imagine what happened in the metaverse through our inherent cognition today. We need to think about the dimensions in the metaverse from the perspective of the aborigines in the metaverse. For the next generation of programmers and designers, they will be natives of the Metaverse. Just like the natives of the Internet, the way of receiving information and the speed of understanding the world will show geometric exponential growth. All objects in the metaverse naturally have countless original attributes, and they will be the group that can best adapt to such an environment.

Human beings have made various efforts in history to obtain incremental markets.

Starting from the great geographical discovery, from the 15th century to the 17th century, European fleets appeared on the oceans all over the world, looking for new trade routes and trading partners. Although we did not find a golden country that allows all Europeans to live happily, we did find that the trade routes have been greatly expanded and new increments have been obtained in the Age of Discovery.

In the 21st century, we discovered that the Internet and computer technology can provide services at extremely low marginal costs."Internet Colonization"Let a group of multinational Internet giants gain new growth on a global scale.

In recent years, with no major technological breakthroughs, the world has gradually fallen into the shadow of uneasiness. Political tensions, economic turmoil, all suggest that we are gradually returning to the situation of stock cutting.

Today, on the one hand, we are exploring and longing for the great geographical discovery of the interstellar era, looking up at the starry sky, and looking forward to exploring the sea of ​​stars all over the sky. On the other hand, we gradually began to use VR/AR, brain-computer interface technology, and digital twin technology to start the construction of our virtual space. The Metaverse was born precisely in this most suitable time and space.

Why do we go to the virtual world? On the one hand, it is because in the metaverse, we can obtain an infinitely incremental market. Like the movie "Ready Player One", we can experience all kinds of interesting services in the virtual world without any consumption in real life. With the birth of brain-computer interface technology, we may lie in a dormant cabin in the future and experience a high-dimensional life experience. It will neither consume too much resources in the physical world, nor reduce any of today's rich activities, such as eating, drinking, playing, and having fun, all of which will have the same experience and service in the Metaverse. Through the brain-computer interface technology, even if we feel that we are eating big fish and meat, we can still ensure the health of our bodies through nutrient solutions in the physical world. In this way, you can experience the thrill of fried food, but you don't have to worry about the risk of getting out of shape and causing cancer.

If only virtual food and game experience are not enough to summarize the Metaverse. If the metaverse is only for human leisure and entertainment, then it will not be able to help everyone see the future with infinite possibilities.

In the future, more than 90% of human activities will be carried out in the Metaverse. Almost all production activities of our scientific research, art, teaching, development, and design will be in the Metaverse. Many people may ask, how is it possible? It is possible for me to go to the metaverse to play games and lose weight, but it is impossible for us to put all the production in the metaverse, that is not a real world.

because

becauseInside the Metaverse is a Final Fantasy fusion of all computer science to date. Our 5G, VR, AR, brain-computer interface technology, blockchain, artificial intelligence, metaverse is a new world that can carry all these technologies.

Taking brain-computer interface technology as an example, our brains can be tricked. We may feel that a long time has passed in our sleep, but it may only have passed one night in real life. When you write 10 or 100 papers in the Metaverse, you can only write 1 paper in reality, would you choose to enter the Metaverse? In the face of such a substantial increase in efficiency, we will accelerate to reach the technological singularity. And this kind of efficiency improvement, I have already estimated very conservatively. The calculation amount of any algorithm and formula running in our cloud computing today may not be solved even if the memory overflows in the past.

Therefore, all non-basic scientific breakthroughs will accelerate exponentially with the arrival of the Metaverse. finally,Bring about an irreversible paradigm shift in the world.

Computer scientists today don't understand the potential of blockchains and smart contracts. Simply put, blockchain is the first technology born to build consensus. Smart contracts are sociologically different from any computer language before them, even if they share the same syntax. The computer language for writing smart contracts is no longer a tool for communicating with machines in formal linguistics, but a way of communicating with all computer scientists in the world, with all computers, and with the entire metaverse in cognitive linguistics.

Language affects people's thinking mode, which in turn affects the way people perceive the world.

Most of the computer languages ​​we have learned before exist for computers/machines to achieve certain functions. Even if it is open source code on github, although we know that the code will be made public, we don't expect users to understand what we have done.

In today's Internet world, users don't understand what the code behind any app is. We often hear a saying that we don't have to understand what the technology behind it is, I just want to experience the functions that I can experience. All previous computer programming languages ​​were born to serve this purpose. We write programs to complete a certain functionality, to add an activity to the app, or to use artificial intelligence algorithms to distinguish which picture is a cat, then A picture is of a human etc. With smart contracts, this is not the case.

Smart contracts are designed to execute logic and achieve consensus interaction in the blockchain, a network where everyone and all machines generate consensus. When we write a smart contract, we may be in order to prove our innocence, clearly express all the rules in the contract, without leaving a back door; we may be in order to be fair and just, and everyone can see the logical rules and design solutions in the contract ; We may be in order to achieve consensus interaction, all developers can directly and conveniently interact with smart contracts, just like machine gun pools and aggregators can easily connect to the depth of funds in the entire decentralized world; when we write a smart contract , we hope that developers and ordinary users can understand the logic and ensure the openness and transparency of the core logic. We hope to achieve functionality, security, and consensus interaction while disclosing all core code.

We design a smart contract to make it easy for everyone to understand, transparent rules and interact with our contract in the same way.

Learning to use language affects the way humans think. To ordinary people, snow is a kind of white crystals that fall in the air. But in the Inuit language, there are more than 10 words to describe snow. Ordinary people can also distinguish many different snow abilities after learning Inuit. For example, they have a distinction between states: melting snow, falling snow, snow on the ground, and so on.

In 2012, the author happened to have the opportunity to enter the polar circle in the polar night environment, and I deeply understood why snow is so important to their lives. A new way of perception and thinking will be born by learning to use the language, and this is the same for programmers. The economic foundation, rules and laws in the metaverse world are not the way of thinking applicable to computer programming in the traditional sense. Today's blockchain developers happen to be the first batch of designers trained in this kind of open rule design thinking. They will become pioneers in the metaverse, contributing to the birth of this new world.

The metaverse is a very interesting future, but how do we get there? After all, we are blockchain developers and computer scientists, not science fiction writers. We can't break away from the actual technical basis and just provide a beautiful fantasy. I think the genesis of the Metaverse must be supported by the following three elements:

PERCEPTION is perception.Today our perception of the Metaverse is still very weak. Even after seeing many metaverse projects, it still feels like a simple, even crude 3D game. In terms of perception, we need a lot of technical support, including VR, AR, MR, brain-computer interface technology, computer graphics, etc. Without the support of perception technology, we simply cannot perceive the existence of the Metaverse.

REGULATION is the rule.For a world as grand as the metaverse, basic economic rules and rules of world operation are needed. What kind of behavior should be punished? What rules apply in the metaverse? What kind of economic infrastructure can provide support? These rules require blockchain technology to provide open and transparent automatic execution.

MASSPRODUCTION is mass production.We don't want all the computer technology and manpower and material resources to just make a metaverse the size of a room. We hope that the world of the metaverse will soon expand to 10 times or 100 times the size of our universe today, providing a vast incremental market.

I used to think that mass production is 5G, IoT, etc., but after thinking about it recently, I found that mass production should be artificial intelligence.No matter how good a programmer is, they are not top-notch producers in the world of the Metaverse.All programmers need to read and understand when looking at codes and smart contracts, and need to transform logic and ingenious ideas when designing. But the code of the Metaverse is naturally readable by machines. The speed of artificial intelligence to understand the metaverse world is countless times faster than that of human beings.The world of the Metaverse is made up of 0s and 1s.

In the future, more than 99% of our metaverse world should be designed by artificial intelligence. Our programmers are more about guiding and establishing rules, designing boundaries, and assisting artificial intelligence to better produce metaverses on a large scale. Moreover, with the accumulation of data and the existing metaverse library, the speed of artificial intelligence design will become faster and faster, and finally according to certain rules, a constantly expanding metaverse space will be formed, just like our physical universe .

The metaverse can effectively avoid human involution and upgrade from a limited civilization to an infinite civilization.Looking back at this year, about 21% of the US dollars were printed this year, a total of 4.5 trillion US dollars. At the same time, in response to the new crown epidemic and the release of water in the United States, the central banks of various countries have also chosen the strategy of continuous release of water. US is `printing' money to help save the economy from the COVID-19 crisis, but some wonder how far it can go https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/money/2020/05/12/coronavirusshow- us-printing-dollars-save-economy-during-crisis-fed/3038117001/

Where will the printed money go? I can't go to real estate, because the real estate prices in various countries are already quite high, and it is normal for young people to not be able to buy a house; I can't go to consumer goods and necessities, because the house price is too high and I can still rent a house. If you can't afford to eat, there will be a big accident; let alone buy weapons and equipment, which may directly lead to World War III. The only way to go is the Metaverse. Because starting a business is the fastest way to burn money. Countless ideas, teams, and high-quality projects will be explored in the Metaverse, and countless capital and hot money will be melted in the Metaverse. Because the money is burned in the metaverse, it is the best option for human beings and even this world. These ideas may bring us unlimited incremental market.

More importantly, there are really unlimited opportunities here. Just like the Internet, these enthusiasms will quickly push the Metaverse to new heights. This not only avoids the involution of our world today, but also explores the boundaries in the new sea of ​​stars in the Metaverse.

In the real world, we are monkeys bound by the rules of physics;In the Metaverse, we are gods whose code is God. All the past is prologue（Shakespeare, William, Barbara A. Mowat, and Paul Werstine. "The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)."Washington Square (1994).). I have always firmly believed that the greatest opportunity of our century will be born in the metaverse, and I look forward to meeting you in the metaverse!

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