NIck Kelly, Author at Startup Daily

What is the metaverse? The high-tech plan to Facebookify the world

NIck Kelly - December 9, 2021 5 MIN READ

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the tech giant will shift from being a social media company to becoming “a metaverse company”, functioning in an “embodied internet” that blends real and virtual worlds more than ever before. So what is “the metaverse”? It sounds like the kind of thing billionaires talk about to earn… Read more »

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Machine learning is changing our culture and here’s a simple way to prove it

NIck Kelly - June 4, 2021 4 MIN READ

Most of us benefit every day from the fact computers can now “understand” us when we speak or write. Yet few of us have paused to consider the potentially damaging ways this same technology may be shaping our culture. Human language is full of ambiguity and double meanings. For instance, consider the potential meaning of… Read more »