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<p><b>Part I Introduction: A Whole New Internet 1</b></p> <p>The Future Internet and the Next Digital Revolution 5</p> <p>Chapter 1 The Metaverse and a More Immersive Online Experience 7</p> <p>Chapter 2 Web3 and the Rise of Decentralization 25</p> <p>Chapter 3 When and How Will this Future Internet Play Out? Exploring Timelines, Future Trends, and Challenges 39</p> <p><b>Part II How the Future Internet Will Change Our World 57</b></p> <p>Chapter 4 How Creative and Entertainment Industries Are Finding New Ways to Engage with Their Audiences 59</p> <p>Chapter 5 How Fashion and Retail Brands Are Preparing for a More Immersive World 85</p> <p>Chapter 6 Overhauling How We Learn (At All Stages of Life) 99</p> <p>Chapter 7 Disrupting Finance, IT, and Other Service Industries 111</p> <p>Chapter 8 Metaverse Hospitals and More: Healthcare in the Future Internet 127</p> <p>Chapter 9 Innovating Industry, Streamlining Supply Chains: What the Future Looks Like for Manufacturing, Energy, and Other Industrial Organizations 141</p> <p>Chapter 10 How Governments and Public Services Will Harness the Future Internet 155</p> <p>Chapter 11 Everyday Life and Leisure in the Future Internet 167</p> <p><b>Part III Leveraging the Future Internet in Your Business 183</b></p> <p>Chapter 12 Rethinking Products and Services 185</p> <p>Chapter 13 Rethinking Business Operations 197</p> <p>Chapter 14 Attracting, Developing, and Retaining the Right Skills for the Future Internet 209</p> <p>Chapter 15 Creating the Right Culture for Success 219</p> <p>Chapter 16 Developing a Future Internet Strategy 235</p> <p>Chapter 17 Final Words 245</p> <p>About the Author 249</p> <p>Index 251</p>

<p><b>BERNARD MARR</b> is an internationally bestselling business author, keynote speaker and strategist to companies and governments. His commentary on future trends, business skills, artificial intelligence, the metaverse, big data and blockchain is sought-after by people and firms around the world. He is a regular contributor to <i>Forbes</i> and is the founder and CEO of Bernard Marr & Co.

<p><b>AN AUTHORITATIVE AND EXCITING SNEAK PEEK AT THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET FROM ONE OF THE WEB’S MOST RESPECTED FUTURISTS</b> <p><i>The Future Internet: How the Metaverse, Web 3.0, and Blockchain Will Transform Business and Society</i> is an engrossing new treatment of how new technologies, innovations and forms of entrepreneurship will combine to shape tomorrow’s digital realms. Renowned futurist, bestselling author and digital strategist Bernard Marr explores groundbreaking new areas of technological advancement — including blockchain, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and others — and how they’re shaping up to disrupt and transform once-familiar parts of the internet. <p>You’ll discover how various sectors stand poised to benefit from the changes coming to their industries, how people in a wide range of positions can leverage the future internet and the technology, skills and mindsets they’ll need to do so effectively. You’ll also gain a deep understanding of the potential impact of the revolutionary combination of blockchain and metaverse technologies. <p>A captivating and thoroughly insightful take on what tomorrow’s internet will look and feel like, <i>The Future Internet</i> is a must-have book for technology enthusiasts, managers, executives, board members, investors, entrepreneurs and founders everywhere.

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