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The monthly bulletin of LEAP (European Laboratory of Political Anticipation) - 15 Jan 2022

Web3: Meta is not the future of metaverse

Between the film Ready Player One and the thunderous announcements of Facebook’s name change to Meta, the obedient public of the future (that we are) could end up imagining a soon-to-be scenario where we would all be connected 24/24 through 3D headphones, locked in Mr Zuckerberg’s Metaverse, circulating under the Meta label from our job to our supermarket to our romantic rendez-vous, whilst paying services and taxes in Libra/Diem currency as Meta-citizens, and so on.

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A cluster of major trends 2022 is shaping up to be a complicated year... After the great pause of 2020, 2021 tried to make it look like things would return [...]

Dear readers, A new year is beginning, the sixteenth anniversary of the GEAB, and the team believes that the bulletin should now be declared of public utility. At a time [...]

China’s economy weakened further in August 2021 after a fresh Covid outbreak curbed consumer spending. To relaunch the economy after the Covid-19 crisis, the country continued its old-style supply boost [...]

Investments - The voice of reason In view of our booklet of trends and all the points of uncertainty we have identified, we would urge you to be careful about [...]

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