Hi ChatGPT, I am going to interview you about your thoughts about the future of the Metaverse and future use cases and business models that will be derived by large language models like yourself.

— ”Hello! I would be happy to share my thoughts on the future of the Metaverse and the potential uses and business models for large language models like myself. Please let me know what specific questions you have in mind.”

The term Digital Thread made its first appearance in a 2013 Global Horizon report, but wasn't officially defined until 2018 when Singh & Willcox at MIT wrote about Digital Threads in a white paper titled "Engineering with a Digital Thread". In this academic essay the term Digital Thread is described as "a data-driven architecture that links together information generated from across the product lifecycle and is envisioned to be the primary or authoritative data and communication platform for a company’s products at any instance of time."

So what exactly is a data fabric? Data fabrics are the best means of storing, networking, and contextualizing data that we have today. Data fabrics give us the best shot of getting to this highly connected Industrial Metaverse. So what are the key features and advantages of data fabric architectures?

Einstein made a great comment: “No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.” Or in other words, the thinking that you use in order to identify a problem is probably not going to be the same thinking that you're going to use in order to solve that problem.

The Social Metaverse will be one in which you, as a person, would exist as a high fidelity, digital representation or virtual simulation or virtual reality representation of yourself. So you, John Smith, would have a virtual reality representation made possible with technologies such as AR, VR, enhanced facial recognition, digital facial constructions, face tracking, camera technologies, computer vision, and more.

Evolution of thought is an interesting concept to study. Collective psychologies play an important part in our interpretation of the role of technologies in relation to problem solving. This is true because our perceived benefits of technology can form a sort of guide-post in thought to what kind of outcomes can be achieved, or preconceived barriers to what technology can truly become. And sometimes it is difficult to fully describe what can come next, like Bill Gates explaining succinctly 'What is the Internet?' to David Letterman. Or David Bowie explaining how the Internet would break down barriers between the 'creators of media' and the 'audience consuming that media' (as well as the potential negative implications of this shift, i.e. social media).

One of the first foundational technical prerequisites for the Industrial Metaverse is the need for digital twins that precisely simulate reality in a reactive real-time bi-directional, synchronous, high-fidelity, closed-feedback-loop process. Therefore, while the word “digital twin” represents imprecise terminology, its true definition requires far more adjectives. Such futuristic “digital twins” would thereby act as virtual reality representations of assets, systems, and networks.