A guide to the past, present and future of 3D Web. Presented at Metameets in Amsterdam in May 2009.

1. Barefoot Leader’s
Guide to 3D Web
Terry Thorpe

5. Who am I?

6. technology

8. Text

10. the human psyche

15. Academic
Evangelist
Geek
Pundit
Journalist
Consultant

16. Passionate
Visionary
Experienced
Straight Forward
Plain English

17. “leadership is the
capacity to translate
vision into reality”
Warren Bennis

20. style & content

22. Percentage of chart which looks like Pac-man
Looks like Pac-man
Does not look like Pac-man

23. the “journey”

25. family tree

27. waves of change

28. agrarian information imagination
industrial knowledge ∞

29. ™
‘exponentiality’

30. green agenda the ‘laws’ globalisation
communications web financial crisis
video games cultural change networks

32. ™
‘Globolution’
globolution picture

34. short term

36. long term

37. world economy
$
then now

38. which leads me to...

39. the “laws”

40. moore’s law
transistors
every 24 months
then now

41. kryder’s law
disk storage
every 24 months
then now

42. butter’s law
fibre optic capacity
every 9 months
then now

43. nielson’s law
broadband
every 21 months
then now

46. which leads me to...

51. @

54. internet growth
then now

57. social web
prosumers voice recognition
avatar 2.0
semantic
3d widgets 2.0
augmented reality
touch
Web 3.0 economy
identity 2.0
mirror worlds
media web
mobile
wearable ubiquitous
SVG crowd-sourcing

58. Web 3.0

68. BRIC

70. video games

86. cultural change

90. millennials

91. 34

92. choices

94. ‘poster child’