Dawn of A Diverse, Equitable & Inclusive Metaverse: TMCF | MetaScholars Program
I can still remember the first day I saw a commercial website. It was around 1998 and its was the Victoria Secret site. Not only was the site provocative, BUT it represented to me a shift in digital commerce where design and accessibility fused to radically redefine how we (as consumers) would engage retail. Now, Victoria Secret was NOT the first instance of this revolution — In fact we can track back to as early as 1982 with the Boston Computer Exchange. BCE was launched to serve as an onlin...
Dawn of A Diverse, Equitable & Inclusive Metaverse: TMCF | MetaScholars Program
I can still remember the first day I saw a commercial website. It was around 1998 and its was the Victoria Secret site. Not only was the site provocative, BUT it represented to me a shift in digital commerce where design and accessibility fused to radically redefine how we (as consumers) would engage retail. Now, Victoria Secret was NOT the first instance of this revolution — In fact we can track back to as early as 1982 with the Boston Computer Exchange. BCE was launched to serve as an onlin...
Why DEI Needs To Be On The Front-End of The Metaverse
Recently, I wrote a rant on The Emerging Meta Divide. Heading this idea off at the front of the path as we traverse into the Metaverse is something that I am deeply interested in and passionate about on many levels. As an Entrepreneur, Innovator and life-long Technologist, I have seen the waves of technological change that has shaped how we interact, conduct business, and progress as a people. I have also witnessed the disparate gap that continues to persist as it pertains to people of color ...
Why DEI Needs To Be On The Front-End of The Metaverse
Recently, I wrote a rant on The Emerging Meta Divide. Heading this idea off at the front of the path as we traverse into the Metaverse is something that I am deeply interested in and passionate about on many levels. As an Entrepreneur, Innovator and life-long Technologist, I have seen the waves of technological change that has shaped how we interact, conduct business, and progress as a people. I have also witnessed the disparate gap that continues to persist as it pertains to people of color ...
Getting Ahead of The Emerging Meta Divide
Historically, people of color have fallen behind in the wake of technological advancement. From the dawn of the consumer web, to Web 2.0 — The technical gap that forms from the lack of speed to adopt, leverage and forward technology within the black community is always problematic. There are a vast amount of reasons why this happens, however; at the forefront of the reasons, there rest the simple idea that as a people we are in large part “consumers” of technology and we are usually 3–5 years...
Getting Ahead of The Emerging Meta Divide
Historically, people of color have fallen behind in the wake of technological advancement. From the dawn of the consumer web, to Web 2.0 — The technical gap that forms from the lack of speed to adopt, leverage and forward technology within the black community is always problematic. There are a vast amount of reasons why this happens, however; at the forefront of the reasons, there rest the simple idea that as a people we are in large part “consumers” of technology and we are usually 3–5 years...
