The virtual world can seem more immediate and significant than the smelly, tasty, touchy 3D Real World. Its a place of anxiety and triumphant exhilaration which sweeps us into the social networking swirl of collective consciousness.It is a parallel world where you can be on the move in the Real World, yet always hooked into an alternative time and place.Many parents complain that they are unable to take their child away from screen time and back into the 3D world.

A Global Phenomenon

Sharing personal information about oneself, as promoted on social networking sites, activates the reward systems in the brain the same way as food and sex do.

Upon waking, you will be checking your phone within 15 minutes of consciousness.You will need stimulation, excitement and escapism. So you use technology to socialise, for online shopping, playing games etc.The Real physical world is becoming less relevant as traditional constraints of time and space fade.The time that could have been spent walking in fresh air or having a face to face conversation has been forfeited in favour of cyberactivity, which is a completely new type of environment where taste, smell and touch are not stimulated, being completely sedentary for long periods of time.

Unprecedented Times

We have always invented new things, we have always worried about new things and we have always moaned about the younger generations.

In 2000, brain scans showed that London cab drivers had developed physical changes in their brains as a result of their daily activity of constantly using their working memory. Their hippocampus was actually bigger compared to non taxi drivers of the same age. This is an example of the 'use it or lose it' principle.Plasticity is the term for this process, the brains ability to shape and mould itself in response to stimuli.Environmental enrichment has been demonstrated in studies showing physical changes in neural circuits through experience.

How The Brain Changes

The brain undergoes continuous physical change... the brain remakes itself throughout life, in response to outside stimuli to its environment and to experience.

The word 'ecstasy' in Greek means 'to stand outside' of oneself. It is this emotional, unreflective state that we seek out through a diverse range of pursuits - an absence of self consciousness, of being 'abandoned'.MINDLESS - sensation, strong feelings dominate, here and now, driven by external environment, little meaning, not self conscious, high dopamine, meaningless world.MINDFUL - cognition, thinking dominates, past-present-future, driven by internal perceptions, personalised meaning, robust sense of self, less dopamine, meaningful world.

Out Of Your Mind

Thinking is movement confined to the brain.

When you share personal information on a social networking site, you share it with a large immediate audience.Research shows that the lack of face to face communication leads to a corresponding rise in self disclosure. The absence of visual cues or body language to discourage us or make us second guess what we may disclose, has lead to a rise in self disclosure.Body language is an ancient evolutionary mechanism for not letting our defences down prematurely.

Social Networking

We decided that these would be the social norms now and we just went for it.

Sometimes the real world is not the best place to be. Video games can provide a calming routine for people who are unable to cope with the uncertainties of the real world.Unlike traditional real world games, video games offer an escape from the dull, difficult world to one that is more exciting, appealing to the senses and where there are reassuringly definite and predictable outcomes in which the player can participate as a better self.Research shows unhappy people create avatars that are very different to themselves whereas happy people create avatars just like themselves.

Video Games

Without Google and Wikipedia, I am stupid, not just ignorant.

Research analysing reading behaviour in the digital environment has revealed that decreases in sustained attention are increasingly characterising peoples literacy skills. People inclined to browse, scan and read more selectively, will spend less time on in depth and concentrated reading.Paper books are of a fixed time and place, have permanence and therefore a reassuring security which an ebook will never deliver.Search engines offer an easy fast option as opposed to taking your brain for a work out, you will now run the risk of becoming mentally flabby. The display will be driving you.

The Display Is Driving You

Books stand for knowledge, new ideas and the inventiveness of the human spirit and imagination.

Social networking sites could worsen communication skills and reduce interpersonal empathy.Personal identities might be constructed externally and refined to perfection with the praise of an audience as a priority, an approach more suggestive of performance art than of personal growth.Obsessive gaming could lead to greater recklessness, a shorter attention span and an increasingly aggressive disposition.Heavy reliance on search engines and a preference for surfing, rather than researching, could result in quick mental processing at the expense of deep knowledge and understanding.

Summary

Firstly, the human brain adapts to the environment; secondly, the environment is changing in an unprecedented way; so thirdly, the brain may also be changing in an unprecedented way.

How digital technologies are leaving their mark on our brains.

We live in a world unimaginable only decades ago: a domain of backlit screens, instant information, and vibrant experiences that can outcompete dreary reality. Our brave new technologies offer incredible opportunities for work and play. But at what price? Now renowned neuroscientist Susan Greenfield—known in the United Kingdom for challenging entrenched conventional views—brings together a range of scientific studies, news events, and cultural criticism to create an incisive snapshot of “the global now.” Disputing the assumption that our technologies are harmless tools, Greenfield explores whether incessant exposure to social media sites, search engines, and videogames is capable of rewiring our brains, and whether the minds of people born before and after the advent of the Internet differ. Stressing the impact on Digital Natives—those who’ve never known a world without the Internet—Greenfield exposes how neuronal networking may be affected by unprecedented bombardments of audiovisual stimuli, how gaming can shape a chemical landscape in the brain similar to that in gambling addicts, how surfing the Net risks placing a premium on information rather than on deep knowledge and understanding, and how excessive use of social networking sites limits the maturation of empathy and identity. But Mind Change also delves into the potential benefits of our digital lifestyle. Sifting through the cocktail of not only threat but opportunity these technologies afford, Greenfield explores how gaming enhances vision and motor control, how touch tablets aid students with developmental disabilities, and how political “clicktivism” foments positive change. In a world where adults spend ten hours a day online, and where tablets are the common means by which children learn and play, Mind Change reveals as never before the complex physiological, social, and cultural ramifications of living in the digital age. A book that will be to the Internet what An Inconvenient Truth was to global warming, Mind Change is provocative, alarming, and a call to action to ensure a future in which technology fosters—not frustrates—deep thinking, creativity, and true fulfillment. Praise for Mind Change “Greenfield’s application of the mismatch between human and machine to the brain introduces an important variation on this pervasive view of technology. . . . She has a rare talent for explaining science in accessible prose.”—The Washington Post “Greenfield’s focus is on bringing to light the implications of Internet-induced ‘mind change’—as comparably multifaceted as the issue of climate change, she argues, and just as important.”—Chicago Tribune “Mind Change is exceedingly well organized and hits the right balance between academic and provocative.”—Booklist “[A] challenging, stimulating perspective from an informed neuroscientist on a complex, fast-moving, hugely consequential field.”—Kirkus Reviews “[Greenfield] is not just an engaging communicator but a thoughtful, responsible scientist, and the arguments she makes are well-supported and persuasive.”—Mail on Sunday “Greenfield’s admirable goal to prove an empirical basis for discussion is . . . an important one.”—Financial Times “An important presentation of an uncomfortable minority position.”—Jaron Lanier, Nature

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We live in a world unimaginable only decades ago: a domain of backlit screens, instant information, and vibrant experiences that can outcompete dreary reality. Our brave new technologies offer incredible opportunities for work and play. But at what price?   Now renowned neuroscientist Susan Greenfield—known in the United Kingdom for challenging entrenched conventional views—brings together a range of scientific studies, news events, and cultural criticism to create an incisive snapshot of “the global now.” Disputing the assumption that our technologies are harmless tools, Greenfield explores whether incessant exposure to social media sites, search engines, and videogames is capable of rewiring our brains, and whether the minds of people born before and after the advent of the Internet differ.   Stressing the impact on Digital Natives—those who’ve never known a world without the Internet—Greenfield exposes how neuronal networking may be affected by unprecedented bombardments of audiovisual stimuli, how gaming can shape a chemical landscape in the brain similar to that in gambling addicts, how surfing the Net risks placing a premium on information rather than on deep knowledge and understanding, and how excessive use of social networking sites limits the maturation of empathy and identity.   But Mind Change also delves into the potential benefits of our digital lifestyle. Sifting through the cocktail of not only threat but opportunity these technologies afford, Greenfield explores how gaming enhances vision and motor control, how touch tablets aid students with developmental disabilities, and how political “clicktivism” foments positive change.   In a world where adults spend ten hours a day online, and where tablets are the common means by which children learn and play, Mind Change reveals as never before the complex physiological, social, and cultural ramifications of living in the digital age. A book that will be to the Internet what An Inconvenient Truth was to global warming, Mind Change is provocative, alarming, and a call to action to ensure a future in which technology fosters—not frustrates—deep thinking, creativity, and true fulfillment. Praise for Mind Change   “Greenfield’s application of the mismatch between human and machine to the brain introduces an important variation on this pervasive view of technology. . . . She has a rare talent for explaining science in accessible prose.”—The Washington Post   “Greenfield’s focus is on bringing to light the implications of Internet-induced ‘mind change’—as comparably multifaceted as the issue of climate change, she argues, and just as important.”—Chicago Tribune   “Mind Change is exceedingly well organized and hits the right balance between academic and provocative.”—Booklist   “[A] challenging, stimulating perspective from an informed neuroscientist on a complex, fast-moving, hugely consequential field.”—Kirkus Reviews   “[Greenfield] is not just an engaging communicator but a thoughtful, responsible scientist, and the arguments she makes are well-supported and persuasive.”—Mail on Sunday   “Greenfield’s admirable goal to prove an empirical basis for discussion is . . . an important one.”—Financial Times   “An important presentation of an uncomfortable minority position.”—Jaron Lanier, Nature

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Your computer comes preloaded with several applications that many people won’t use but that can eat up system resources. You can usually identify these when you see a pop-up prompting you to update a program you’ve never used before. Remove them from your computer and free up disk space

1. Uninstall unnecessary software:

Along the same lines, you can also determine which applications run when your PC boots up. Windows 10 has an updated Task Manager that makes it easier to determine what you want running in the background and what you can start on your own.

2. Limit the programs at the startup:

In terms of memory usage, Windows 10 & 11 uses less RAM than previous versions, but increasing RAM memory has been a tried-and-true way to speed up devices for years. If you have a convertible or detachable laptop, you’ll likely need to settle for what came in the box. Some business and gaming laptops make it possible to add RAM, but it can still be tricky. It’s much easier to add more RAM to desktop computers, and it’s much cheaper, too. Anyone with a basic idea of the interior of a desktop tower is capable of installing more RAM in an hour or so.

3. Add more RAM to your PC:

It’s almost impossible not to pick up a virus at some point while browsing the web, but the new Windows Defender software has made it easier than ever to find malware that may be causing major issues on your PC. Third-party programs are also easy to install and can be just as effective in removing any spyware or viruses you may have picked up.

4. Check for spyware and viruses:

Every computer has many files and programs on its hard drive/ SSD that haven’t been used in a while or are unnecessary. Disk Cleanup allows you to find which applications and files can be deleted from your computer, freeing up drive space for the programs you will use. You should also schedule disk defragmentation on a semi-regular basis so you can be aware of how much hard-drive space you have. Windows has an Optimize Drives tool, which you can access from the Start button or your Cortana search box.

5. Use Disk Cleanup and defragmentation:

When you want better performance, a startup solid-state drive (SSD) can go a long way toward taking some of the pressure off the processor when your computer boots up.If you tend to run many applications at one time or use photo and video editing software, then a startup drive can go a long way toward making these programs run smoother and load faster. While they’re most commonly installed on desktop computers, SSDs can be used on some laptop models as well. When you don’t have the option of using an internal SSD,you can always purchase an external drive that connects to your PC with a USB 3.0

6. Consider a startup SSD:

Minor adjustments can often make a difference with the speed of your PC. Something as simple as which browser you use can slow down or speed up the rate at which web pages, videos, and images load. If you have been using a certain browser and notice that there is a lag time, consider an alternative to seeing if the loading speeds are better. The type of browser you use is not only the thing that may be slowing down your computer when you’re using the web. If you have a full cache that has not been emptied in a while, then you’ll want to visit your settings and make sure that it’s empty.

7. Take a look at your web browser:

Restarting your computer is probably the easiest fix for almost any PC problem, including general system slowdowns. When you restart your computer, you stop all running software, tasks, processes, and open pieces of data that are draining your computer’s processing power. When you boot back up, your computer will have a lot more free memory to operate, which is why it will likely perform a lot faster. Because restarting your machine is almost effortless (and pretty quick), you should always use this method first before trying anything else.

8. Restart Your Computer:

Most people delete files, but these files get moved to the Recycle Bin and are then forgotten about. It’s important to regularly empty the Recycle Bin to fully remove deleted files from your system. When you permanently remove your files from your PC, they’re gone forever — unless you’ve backed them up onto your external hard drive or to a cloud storage platform.

9. Empty Your Recycle Bin:

If your computer is severely slowed down, consider starting again with a fresh version of Windows. You can do this from home and you won’t need to pay for a new version of Windows if you already have Windows installed and activated. But installation can take up to a few hours, and you will need to reinstall all of your apps and settings (and maybe even your files).

10. Reinstall Windows:

Overclocking essentially means forcing your CPU components to run faster than they were designed to. This method can be a bit dangerous, as overclocking can cause processors to overheat and become damaged. It may not even be possible to overclock your CPU if the motherboard is locked. Overclocking can also be very time-consuming and expensive if you mess up the CPU in the process. I wouldn’t recommend this option for most users. But for advanced, technically-minded users who are experienced in upgrading their PC, this might be something worth trying.

11. Overclock Your CPU:

Therefore, consider upgrading some of your computer’s components to speed up your system. Desktop PCs will usually be easier to upgrade than laptops but always check with your manufacturer first.You have a few options here, depending on what’s causing your computer’s slowdown:<ul><li>Upgrade your computer’s RAM to handle more tasks at the same time.</li><li>Switch your HDD for an SSD for faster and easier access to files and shorter load times.</li><li>Upgrade your GPU (graphics processor) for a better experience with gaming and high-definition video.</li></ul>

12. Upgrade Your Computer’s Hardware:

Regardless of what’s causing your PC to slow down over time, there are a few best practices to keep in mind for better day-to-day performance such as:<ul><li>Always close apps and software you’re not using.</li><li>Move large files to an external storage drive and/or to a cloud storage platform.</li><li>Regularly empty your Recycle Bin and delete software caches and unnecessary downloads.</li><li>Restart your computer regularly.</li><li>Do occasional defrags (if you have an HDD) and chkdsk scans for errors.</li><li>Protect your device with a reliable antivirus program.</li></ul>

13. Conclusion (Maintaining Good PC Performance):

However, all computers and their components degrade and have to be replaced or upgraded over time. But with proper care, you can delay that and give your computer a long, happy life

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Why do you want a fitness tracker to begin with? To lose weight? Train for a marathon? Improve your sleeping habits? Fitness trackers are a motivational tool, but they can’t help if you’re unclear about your goals.If you train for a marathon, that means you’re going to need something that can track GPS distance, monitor heart rate, and comes with long battery life. But if your ultimate goal is to improve your sleep, you may not need a tracker with built-in GPS at all. You’ll want long battery life, perhaps a SpO2 sensor, and a tracker that’s capable of providing detailed sleep insights.

Find your why and go from there

<ul><li>All fitness trackers have a combination of accelerometers and gyroscopes to detect motion. Some will add altimeters and barometers to measure elevation or how many stairs you’ve climbed in a day.</li><li>Nearly all modern trackers have a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor - green LEDs that shine light through your skin to measure heart rate. There are also an increasing number of trackers that include red LEDs or SpO2 sensors to measure blood oxygen levels.</li><li>If you see a tracker has EKG capabilities, that means it has an electrode. </li><li>Some fitness trackers will also opt for built-in GPS. Others will use your <warningtag>phone’s GPS.</warningtag></li></ul>

Understand sensors and fitness jargon

If you want more advanced fitness insights, three metrics you should:<ul><li>HRV is a metric measuring the fluctuations of time between heartbeats. It’s often used as a measure of how well you’ve recovered from a workout or to estimate stress levels.</li><li>SpO2 is often used interchangeably with pulse oximetry. The gist is that it measures how oxygenated your blood is. Companies are still figuring out how to best utilize this metric, but you frequently see it pop up in sleep and recovery tracking.</li><li>VO2 Max is a metric that measures the maximum amount of oxygen your body can use during intense exercise.</li></ul>

Advanced fitness insights

If you’re looking to leave your phone at home, you might be better off with a smartwatch that has decent health features.The thing about fitness trackers is they’re often lacking on the connectivity front. You’re likely not going to find them including LTE, robust third-party apps, contactless payments, or a digital assistant. Or if you do, it might be one or two of those — but certainly not all of them.

Do you actually want a smartwatch instead?

<ul>
<li>When browsing your options, don’t forget to check the size and thickness of the watch, as well as the materials it’s made from. If your fitness tracker isn’t comfortable, you’re not going to wear it.</li>
<li>Comfort is especially important if sleep tracking is a priority. You don’t want to buy a big hulking tracker. If you have trouble sleeping with wrist-based trackers, so you might also want to look into non-wrist-based sleep gadgets.</li>
<li>A bad fit can also warp your data. If a tracker isn’t snug against your skin during exercise, you might get inaccurate heart rate readings.</li>
</ul>

Don't forget about comfort

Picking the right fitness tracker involves looking at a lot more than just price and specs. Here are a few tips for what to look at when you’re shopping around.

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The Metaverse is a fully immersive digital world for all of us to live in. There is a strong chance that we'll soon have a working Metaverse. It will need many new technologies, protocols, companies, innovations, and discoveries to function. It will also need countless people to work in the countless jobs. Some definitions:<ul><li>Virtual Reality (VR): A full artificial environment.</li><li>Augmented reality (AR): Virtual objects overlaid on a real-world environment.</li><li>Mixed reality (MR): Virtual combined with the real world.</li><li>Extended Reality (XR) / Metaverse: a mix of all the above.</li></ul>

Working in the Metaverse

AR and VR research scientists already exist. As the Metaverse Research Scientist, you will need to build something wherein the entire world is visible and actionable digitally. Other cases will be built on this architecture, such as games, adverts, quality control in factories, connected health, and so on. To become a Metaverse Research Scientist, get a PhD in deep learning, computer vision, computer graphics, computational imaging, and C++.

Metaverse Research Scientist

Once we have a working Metaverse, it will be essential to plan and implement functionalities in to a fully virtual world and select the right things to do within this world. The Metaverse Planner will drive a strategic portfolio of opportunities from proof-of-concept to deployment, meaning identifying market opportunities, building business cases, influencing engineering roadmaps, and so on. A Metaverse Planner will have management experience, knowledge of HW/SW/SaaS/PaaS marketing and business models.

Metaverse Planner

An entire ecosystem will need to be built around the Metaverse - sensors, CPUs, GPUs, KYC processes, data-lakes, green electricity production, edge computing, laws, regulations. The Ecosystem Developer will need to coordinate partners and governments to ensure that the various created functionalities are possible on a large scale. The Ecosystem Developer will have years of Governmental/lobbying experience and an understanding of the expanding XR industry.

Ecosystem Developer

The Metaverse will likely not be a safe place, similar to the internet today: privacy, ID verification, safe head-gear, adequate sensors. We'll need people who can provide guidance and oversight without sacrificing functionality or design. An XR Safety Manager will have an Engineering degree and consumer electronics / manufacturing experience.

Metaverse Safety Manager

The Metaverse will be built on code and sensors, headsets, visual light, and depth cameras to help with tracking and mapping. All this hardware that can connect you to the virtual world is expensive and complex. A Metaverse Hardware Builder will need to assemble it and adapt it as needed. A Sensor Builder will have a factory to create and build complex consumer electronics.

Metaverse Hardware Builder

Our reality experience will need great storylines from which one can learn great lessons. The storyteller will design immersive quests for the users to explore the Metaverse with training scenarios, marketing opportunities for corporations, psychology sessions, etc. The Metaverse Storyteller will have a Literature Major with a Marketing Minor.

Metaverse Storyteller

We still need to imagine and create worlds once the basics are done. World builders will need to be forward-thinking. Much of what they dream won't exist as technology or product solutions. They'll also need to consider rules and ethics. A World Builder will be a kind of warrior-poet and graphic designer.

World Builder

The Metaverse will probably run on intrusive ads, just like is happening on the internet. We'll want ad-blockers that will be able to spot adverts embedded within reality. They'll develop plug-ins that can stop adverts. An Ad-Blocking Expert will need some coding knowledge and access to the Metaverse's source code.

Ad-Blocking Expert

The things that can go wrong is endless: hacked avatars, NFT theft, biometric data leaks, hacked headsets. That is why we'll need Metaverse Cyber-Security Experts. A Metaverse Cyber-security Expert will have a background in regular cyber-security and a law degree with an interest in Tech.

Metaverse Cyber-Security

The metaverse is coming—whether we like it or not—and it'll bring new jobs. But just what could these jobs be and what skills do you need?

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<ul><li>Start with small companies when recruiting B2B clients. They are more open and willing to collaborate, have fewer decision makers, and the entire sales process is shorter. Then go to medium companies, and finally to big companies. By the time you reach big companies, you'll have enough supply/demand in your platform to be attractive to them.</li><li>Generate demand for your supply as soon as possible, even in small quantity. Otherwise, suppliers lose trust in your platform.</li><li>Balance supply and demand to prevent either party from becoming frustrated.</li></ul>

Getting clients

<ul><li>Unit economics become important as the business grows and becomes more mature and stable.</li><li>Don't obsess over them in the beginning. Focus on getting a critical mass of supply and demand, even if the unit economics don't make sense.</li><li>Unit economics improve as your business gains momentum and your clients spread the word and bring in new customers.</li></ul>

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The digital transformation is great for many things, but it also creates a playground for cybercriminals, identity thieves and fraudsters. Cybercriminals are an invisible enemy that only needs a device and internet connection. Then they can make multiple attempts to defraud people or businesses.

Fraud in the digital age

It's easy for cyber fraudsters to steal or assume another's identity. Sometimes it's not even an individual but a ghost, auto-generated by a few lines of code. Photographic proof is easy as fraudsters give themselves a random human "face" using a facial composition app or by stealing a photograph from someone else's social media page.

Our identities are under attack

Individuals can put systems and protections in place to stop fraudsters at the source. Advancements such as zero-trust security and secure access service edge (SASE) models can ensure that security extends to the user and the device, regardless of where they are.

Securing the digital ecosystem

Companies and individuals need to take steps to protect themselves from fraud.

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NFTs have become very popular among some art collectors and investors. While the verdict is still out if this is a legitimate investment class, NFTs are promising for artists and creators. With this step-by-step guide, artists and creators can turn their work into an NFT.

NFTs are a promising development

NFTs (non-fungible token) is a type of digital certificate that guarantees ownership of a unique digital asset. It is built on a blockchain such as Ethereum. NFTs is the ability to guarantee yourself as the original creator. You can then set a fee for when that digital asset is sold in the future and earn passive income if your work is sold on the secondary market.

How to mint NFTs

You first need to open a crypto wallet, then connect it to the NFT marketplace. If you're using OpenSea, click either the wallet icon or the "Create" button in the right corner. Depending on the wallet you want, such as MetaMask or Coinbase, and if you're working from a desktop or mobile, you'll be asked to connect your wallet using a QR code scanner on your smartphone or download your wallet on your computer. Ensure to complete your marketplace profile, tell the NFT world about yourself, insert links to your website or social media pages, and specify which cryptos you'll accept.

Connect your wallet

<ul><li>From the marketplace's home page, click the "create" button. You'll be asked to upload a digital file and give your NFT a name. You need to specify which blockchain to base the NFT on, such as Ethereum.</li><li>Set up how much you'll be paid in royalties if your NFT gets sold again. A standard royalty payout is five to ten per cent of the secondary sales price.</li><li>Click " complete" to mint your first NFT.</li></ul>

Create your first item

Selling an NFT requires the network to do some computing, which will cost some money, known as a "gas fee." To complete your first sale, ensure you've purchased some Ethereum or other crypto you want to use on a crypto trading app and deposit it into your wallet. You can then transfer the crypto from your wallet to your NFT marketplace account.

Ensure your wallet is funded

Once you've minted your NFT, you can sell it on the open market. Click on the "Sell" button in the upper right corner of your NFT's description page. <ul><li>Pick the type of sale: A fixed price based on your cryptocurrency of choice or a timed auction.</li><li>The marketplace will disclose any related fees for selling. For example, OpenSea has a service fee of 2.5% of the NFT selling price.</li><li>Click on "complete listing." The marketplace will calculate the gas fees and request payment from your crypto wallet.</li><li>When the gas fees are paid, your NFT will list on the marketplace.</li></ul>

List your NFT for sale

When your NFT is created and listed for sale, you need to engage with potential buyers. You can also create more NFTs as part of a collection, attracting art collectors or speculator attention. Interacting with users and collectors on NFT marketplaces will build rapport which can help to develop your new NFT business.

Manage your NFT business

While some digital creators make big easy money by creating NFTs, it's still early days. However, the ability to passively monetise work long after the original sale could be a game-changer for artists, musicians, content producers, video game developers, etc. Turning your digital labour into a blockchain-based asset is promising and could eventually completely change the way creators get paid.

Early days for the NFT movement

This complete guide to minting NFTs explains what it means to mint your own NFT and how to get started with the minting process.

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The "floor price" in an NFT market is the lowest price of any NFT within a chosen category. Buying the floor is a good starter strategy as it requires less money to start with. Cheaper NFTs fit into a larger number of potential buyers' bankrolls and can benefit from increased visibility.

Buy the floor

If you have more money to invest in NFTs, buy the ceiling NFTs. They are the rarest and most in-demand assets. If demand increases for the project, ceiling NFTs can significantly increase the price. The downside is that fewer people with enough money can buy the NFT, making it harder to sell at a good price.

Buy the ceiling

Find NFTs listed for cheaper than previous sales, not just NFTs listed at a price below other sellers. Do not judge value only on listing prices. For example, when looking at an NFT with ten copies, one is listed for $100 and the rest for $500. $100 may look like a good deal, but if the previous sale for the NFT is only $20, it makes the $100 listing overpriced.

Look for underpriced NFTs

Keep an eye on the various levels of market trends, which all have varying effects on the value of your NFT. <ul><li>The market for all NFTs. The more people interested in NFTs, the more money will flow into projects.</li><li>The market for an NFT project. Watching this trend is vital as individual projects quickly gain or lose popularity. Watch its trading volume and ranking relative to other NFT projects over time.</li><li>The market for a specific NFT. Individual NFTs can fluctuate in price because the NFT is related to some person or organisation becoming more or less popular.</li></ul>

Use market trends

Watch how sellers for an NFT are acting. If all the listed prices are well above recent sales with listing prices spaced out from each other, you can infer that the sellers are patient and won't react if you list for a lower price than them. However, if many prices are low and close together, it is a sign of competitive sellers who like to undercut.

Find NFTs without many sellers

You can use the strategies without much knowledge about the project, but getting involved in the community is hugely beneficial to get a better perspective on how a project will grow and what drives the demand for its NFTs.

Get involved in the community

Whether you're planning a short term flip or a long term investment, you will want to put some thought into your NFT purchases. This NFT trading guide covers a variety of strategies you can use to make money with NFTs as a beginner or a more experienced investor.

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The concept of deep time was coined by a geologist in the 18th century as a counterpoint to the contemporary belief that Earth was only thousands of years old (it is now believed to be roughly 4.5 billion years old).The term describes the history of the Earth over a time span of millions of years.

Deep Time

Can we connect to deep time via sensory experience? This artwork, called “Totality,” brings together nearly every solar eclipse documented by humankind in a mirror ball. Over 10,000 images reflect the progression of a solar eclipse. Their light surrounds us, and we can feel mesmerized.

Art: Looking At The Solar Eclipses Together

The journey we humans have been on to arrive right here is nothing short of a miracle. “Fossil Necklace” is a string of worlds made of the material of life itself. Each bead is carved from ancient fossils and strung geological epoch by epoch. The beads chart major moments in Earth’s history. The first single-celled life, the first flowers, the first creatures to see and to fly. “Fossil Necklace” speaks to our long continuum.

Art: The Fossil Necklace

Every day we walk past trees, but do we stop to think that they are our cousins? We share so many of our genes with trees, and forests give us our breath. We created a sculpture made of every tree type on Earth. This is “Hollow.” Designed with architects Zeller & Moye, it brings together over 10,000 tree species spanning millions of years. We were donated wood samples from almost every country: the Indian Banyan, the White Mulberry, the Dawn Redwood and twigs from sacred forests around us. Looking upwards into the light, we see the most threatened tree species of now.

The Dying Trees

Every single atom in our bodies was formed in a star billions of years ago. The remnants of stars make up all of us. Our vision was to gather every dying star across the universe and make a map. The result: over 27,000 supernova, stellar black holes and gamma-ray bursts shimmer as pinpoints of aluminum. What you see is a graveyard of stars, yet it alludes to life.

Our Bodies Are Made Of Stars

How do we speak to unborn people? How do we build a bridge across time? We proposed a library of the future: a forest, a room, 100 authors and 100 years. It started in 2014. On the outskirts of Oslo, we planted a thousand baby Spruce trees. When they’re fully grown, they’re going to be cut and made into paper. Every year for 100 years a different author is invited to write something new. Their words will become an anthology of books printed on paper made from these trees, only to be read in the year 2114.

The Future Library Project

Why does connecting to deep time matter to us all? Shortsightedness may be the greatest threat to humanity. To be human is to understand that we’re part of a long continuum. Let’s embrace our cosmic context, respect our origins and hold our future close.

Deep Time: 100 Years Are Not Much

Short-sightedness may be the greatest threat to humanity, says conceptual artist Katie Paterson, whose work engages with deep time -- an idea that describes the history of the Earth over a time span of millions of years. In this lively talk, she takes us through her art -- a telephone line connected to a melting glacier, maps of dying stars – and presents her latest project: the Future Library, a forested room holding unread manuscripts from famous authors, not to be published or read until the year 2114.

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Space

The mind-bending art of deep time

Across the many “Top Technologies for 2020” lists compiled by the leading research firms around the world, a recurring pattern emerges.As we bear witness to the Digital Transformation of our world and cross the threshold into the Web 3.0 era, we face some extraordinary choices with serious and wide-ranging implications. Our technologies, from the first use of fire to the future of facial recognition, appear to be neutral by their very nature. Their appearance obscures their innate potential to magnify both the best and worst of human desires.

The Web 3.0 Era

The emergence of smart cities and factories, autonomous cars and homes, smart appliances and virtual reality worlds, automated shopping, and digitized personal medicine are transforming the way we live, play, work, travel, and shop. All across the planet, our technologies are breaking out from behind the screen and into the physical world around us. Simultaneously, the people, places, and things in our world are being digitized and brought into the virtual world, becoming part of the digital domain. We are digitizing the physical and “physicalizing” the digital.

The Boundaries Of Virtual And Real Are Dissolving

The investments and acquisitions that the largest tech companies have made over the last decade in Artificial Intelligence, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Internet of Things including smart cars, drones, robotics, and biometric wearables as well as Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, 5G Networks, 3D printing, Synthetic Biology, Edge, Mesh, Fog Computing, are being woven into the fabric of our global civilization, under our feet, above our heads, and all around us.

Progress In The Last Decade

These computing technologies coming of age in the 21st century are often referred to as “exponential” — true to Moore’s Law, about every 18 months their capabilities and performance powers double for the same cost.This is a common effect of computing technologies, known as “Moore’s Law” for the co-founder of Intel, Gordon Moore.

The Moore's Law

Metcalfe’s Law states that the total value of a network is determined by the number of other users connected to the network. The more users that an individual user can reach through a network, the more valuable the network becomes, even when the features and price of service remain the same. Metcalfe’s Law is about network scale.

Metcalfe’s Law Of Network Scale

An upgraded smartphone on a faster network enables more engagement, content consumption, and sharing, which drives other users to participate. Web 2.0 has driven the adoption from 1 billion Internet users in 2005 to nearly 4 billion in 2019.3.9 billion people use mobile phones to access the Web, and 2.5 billion of those use smartphones. 3.4 billion are on social networks, 3.2 billion of whom use their mobile phones to access social networks. Better hardware, faster networks, more users.Exponential compute power + Exponential network connections = Exponential Value

Better Phone, Better Network, More Users

The Spatial Web is the multidimensional version of the internet that is now a reality.

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