Nick Clegg, Vice President of Communications and Global Affairs for Meta Platforms, speak at the Web Summit 2021 in Lisbon during a panel on Facebook and innovation in Europe.
The world's largest technology conference has returned to a physical stage after a two-year virtual hiatus induced by Covid. The event features an illustrious list of entrepreneurs, organizations, and influencers at the forefront of their respective fields and, according to recent data compiled by the Web Summit communications team, attracted 42,751 attendees from 128 countries, 50.5% of whom are women. , the highest turnout in the event's ten-year history.
Interviewed by Matthew Garrahan, news editor of the Financial Times, Clegg spoke with a sense of joviality and expressiveness on his panel, sharing a number of notable insights on the development and planned implementation of Facebook's new Meta project.
Clegg shared his personal belief in the importance of "we [Meta] they were as open as possible and that we are not looking to build the metaverse on our own. We are building for the metaverse ”, before continuing to say:
"The metaverse, I think many people would be relieved to know, will not be owned by the saints, managed and orchestrated by Mark Zuckerberg and Meta."
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The former British politician, who served as leader of the Liberal Democrat Party between 2007 and 2015 and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a coalition government alongside David Cameron between 2010 and 2015, is most often considered an orange book liberal whose leanings policies align. with choice and freedom in personal life and in the economic market.
He shared an observation that emphasized the importance of fostering collaboration in pursuit of technological evolution:
“It was important for us to get out there as soon as possible and say the previous technological eruptions that happened very suddenly and then if you will, society, regulation and the law try to catch up breathlessly later, which perhaps is part of it. debate that we are having as a result of the problems that Frances Haugen has brought to light, that this time we can do it the other way around. "
Facebook's corporate pivot in the metaverse marketplace in Facebook Connect conference October 28 places them between the blockchain platforms Axie Infinity, Decentraland and The Sandbox in the construction of the architecture of virtual worlds for people to work, socialize and coexist with the integration of non-fungible tokens (NFT) and other facets of the crypto sphere.
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