Cybercultural | Richard MacManus | Substack

How emerging tech trends in the 2020s — especially the metaverse, aka 3D internet — will change the way we perceive the world and ourselves.

Richard MacManus

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Looking at the state of the mobile internet, present and past 📲 Why? Partly because Facebook wants its metaverse to be like the mobile internet.

Richard MacManus

Feb 10

Thoughts on a pre-internet era. Plus notes on Wordle, Pono, Twitter's algo, Facebook headwinds, and more.

Richard MacManus

Feb 3

Web 2.0 developers continue to be skeptical of Web3 and crypto. But that doesn't make it any less fascinating to dive into 🤿

Richard MacManus

Jan 27

Twitter, Facebook and McDonalds go all-in on NFTs.

Richard MacManus

Jan 20

Experiment your way to the future — how I'm looking at NFTs, with thanks to the iPhone launch of 2007 and David Bowie.

Richard MacManus

Jan 13

What Instagram 📸 and FarmVille 🐄 tell us about where social networks are headed.

Richard MacManus

Jan 6

From the metaverse to an orb that scans your retina and pays you cryptocurrency in return, these were the tech stories that defined 2021.

Richard MacManus

Dec 23, 2021

Other places for Richard's work

Weekly column Richard's column at The New Stack about web dev trends

Web Development History Richard's internet history project

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