eBook - Virtual Natives: How a New Generation is Revolutionizing the Future of Work, Play, and Culture

  • ISBN: 9789377067212
  • 304 pages

Available Exclusively as an eBook | Part of the AI Collection | Only for Institutional Purchase | Publication Year: 2023

Description

Virtual Natives explores how Generations Alpha and Z are driving the shift from the Digital Age to the Virtual Age, revolutionizing work, play, economics, and social life through technology. It examines their behaviors, use of AI, AR/VR, gaming, blockchain, and Web3, revealing a cultural revolution led by this tech-savvy generation reshaping the future.

About the Author

Catherine D. Henry is a US-based futurist and corporate strategist advising global brands on technology disruption and transition to a 3D web; Leslie Shannon is a Silicon Valley-based futurist and corporate advisor focusing on connectivity-related tech disruptions and opportunities.

Table of Contents

Preface: Welcome to the Dawn of the Virtual Natives

Part 1 A Generation Unlike Any Other

Chapter 1 Virtual Is the New Digital

Chapter 2 What Is Reality, Anyway?

Chapter 3 Fluid Identities

Chapter 4 Radical Acceptance

Chapter 5 Putting on the “Rizz”

Chapter 6 From Apprentice to Expert

Chapter 7 Create, Consume, and Own

Chapter 8 Autonomous Agents

Chapter 9 Send Pics

Chapter 10 The First Cyborgs

Part 2 The Revolution Starts Here

Chapter 11 Meet the Degens

Chapter 12 You’re Not the Boss of Me

Chapter 13 Love, Sex, and Algorithms

Chapter 14 Web3 and the Culture

Chapter 15 Life Is Games

Chapter 16 The Charismatics

Chapter 17 Main Character Energy

Chapter 18 Future Forward

Virtual Natives and the New Tech Landscape

Epilogue: Invisible Architecture

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Index

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