Third quarter 2022 revenues of $6.6 million increased 17.3% from $5.6 million in the third quarter of 2021 driven by growth in Business-to-Business (B2B).
A recent report by McKinsey indicates that the metaverse s economic potential could be up to five trillion dollars by 2030. However, while most people think the metaverse concept only started with Zuckerberg s rebrand, innovators and visionaries have been flirting with the idea since the 80s, first in the minds of cyberpunk novelists (such as Gibson, Vinge, or Stephenson), then in the ones of scientists and philosophers (Gelernter, Chalmers), and, eventually, technocapitalists. However, outside of the inner circle of the "usual suspects," metaverse was a pretty esoteric term before 2021 (as this Google Trends proves). So how has a dystopian novel turned into a trillion-dollar industry almost overnight?
Even if the movement for reparations someday transforms the profound economic disparities that fall along racial lines in this country â addressing income disparities, the wealth gap, housing and health care inequities, and unemployment disparities â a fundamental problem of anti-Black racism still wonât be solved.
What remains is a fundamentally
ontological problem: the reality of the
being of whiteness, and its denial of Black humanity within white racist America.
White privilege, white immunity from systemic racism, white forms of racist habitual embodiment, white claims to âinnocence,â gatherings of white religious practitioners at monochromatic white places of worship, and predominantly white institutions where white students walk around their predominately white campuses feeling wanted and at ease â these are manifestations of white ontology, white modes of being.
WonderLab. Photo by Rodney Margison
Editor’s note: The following is adapted from a press release from WonderLab. Bloom
has republished it here with edits for style and clarity.
On January 18, WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day by offering two free virtual science programs.
“Dr. King understood the importance of science,” says the organization in a press release. “In 1963 he published a series of sermons titled
Strength to Love. In the first sermon
, A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart, Dr. King noted that, ‘… science gives man knowledge, which is power …’ Four years later he spoke at the American Psychological Association’s Annual Convention in Washington, D.C., and in a powerful speech challenged the nation’s social scientists to use facts to combat systemic racism.”