My book ‘Exploring the Metaverse’, is now available in stores globally, including Amazon and BPB Online. It features forewords and testimonials from a diverse group of industry leaders.

One such testimonial comes from Dr. Rebecca J Parsons, former Chief Technology Officer at Thoughtworks. It has been a privilege to receive guidance from Rebecca at numerous technology strategy events, where her insights on responsible technology usage and our collective responsibility towards sustainability and technological adaptation have been invaluable.

🙏 I extend my heartfelt thanks to Rebecca for reviewing early versions of the book, sharing his valuable insights, and writing the following foreword:

“Our industry is ripe with hype and promises for the next new thing that will solve all our problems, make everything easier, engage our customers better, and much more. However, these promises do not often result in the large-scale transformation of how we deliver value to our customers. It is often overlooked that many foundational technologies do end up resulting in important changes to how we deliver systems. We continue to see advances in the underlying technologies for the metaverse, with the most prominent being virtual reality and their virtual worlds. This book serves as a guidepost to some of those technologies and their applications within our systems.

Kuldeep’s approach to this topic is wide ranging, where he begins with an analysis of the technology revolutions that have come before metaverse, beginning with the first industrial revolution. He tackles the complex issue of what exactly is the metaverse, or more precisely to me, a metaverse. The lack of an agreed definition plagues discussions of the metaverse, and Kuldeep tackles this by stating his own and justifying it. The exploration of the supporting technologies, such as AI and VR hardware, grounds the subsequent sections where he explores a variety of applications of the technology to both, more and less obvious scenarios.

In the later sections, he addresses the concerns with utilizing features of metaverse, including privacy, safety, security, and sustainability. All technologies come with a cost and our job as responsible technologists is to evaluate them, and do what we can to mitigate anticipated costs. We should also work to expand our horizons and uncover costs and risks that aren’t immediately obvious. These technologies will become common as we understand more about deriving value from them, through the use cases explored in the earlier sections of this book. We can be responsible technologists and still experiment with deriving value from these technologies. Such experimentation is essential to advance our capabilities in the underlying metaverse technologies.

Kuldeep’s experience of working with these technologies’ grounds the section on the practicalities. He appropriately highlights the critical role standards should play in allowing interoperability. He understands and communicates to the reader what it takes to make these technologies deliver value.

While the science fiction version of the metaverse may not come to pass anytime soon, technology will continue changing how we approach designing systems to deliver value to our customers. Kuldeep’s book provides a broad roadmap to not only the technologies and their uses, but also the practical issues that to be addressed. This roadmap guides us to our own roadmaps for experimentation in understanding how metaverse technologies will impact our organizations today and in the future.”

— Dr. Rebecca J Parsons Chief Technology Officer Emerita, Thoughtworks

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