6g and Onward to Next G: The Road to the Multiverse

ISBN-13: 9781119898542 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Martin Maier

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About the Author xivPreface xvAcknowledgments xviiAcronyms xviiiChapter 1 Introduction 11.1 Toward 6G: A New Era of Convergence 11.2 Fusion of Digital and Real Worlds: Multiverse vs. Metaverse 51.2.1 The Multiverse: An Architecture of Advanced XR Experiences 71.2.2 Metaverse: The Next Big Thing? 91.3 The Big Picture: Narratives for 2030 and Beyond 111.3.1 From IoT-Based Industry 4.0 to Human-Centric Cyber-Physical-Social Systems 111.3.2 Human-Centric Industry 5.0 121.3.3 Society 5.0 131.4 Purpose and Outline of Book 171.4.1 Embedding the Multiverse and Metaverse in Meta Narrative Society 5.0 191.4.2 The Art of 6G and Next G: How To Wire Society 5.0 221.4.2.1 Next G: Beyond Incremental 6G = 5G + 1G Mindset 231.4.2.2 Society 5.0: Exodus to the Virtual World? 251.4.3 Finding Your 6G/Next G Blind Spot 261.4.4 Outline 27References 33Chapter 2 Metaverse: The New North Star 372.1 Origins 382.1.1 Avatars and Daemons 382.1.2 Hypercard and Language of Nature 392.1.3 Sumerian Creation Myth: The Nam-Shub of Enki - A Neurolinguistic Virus 402.1.4 Metaverse: At Once Brand New and Very Ancient 432.2 Early Deployments 442.2.1 Metaverse Components, Applications, and Open Challenges 442.2.2 Nissan's Invisible-to-Visible (I2V) Connected-Car Technology Concept 462.2.3 Internet of No Things: Making the Internet Disappear and "See the Invisible" 482.3 Key Enabling Technologies 492.3.1 Metaverse Roadmap of 6G Communications and Networking Technologies 492.3.2 CPSS-Based Sustainable and Smart Societies: Integrated Human, Artificial, Natural, and Organizational Intelligence 522.3.3 NFTs: Tulip Mania or Digital Renaissance? 542.3.3.1 What Is an NFT? 552.3.3.2 How Do NFTs Work? 552.4 Definition(s) of the Metaverse 562.4.1 Confusion and Uncertainty as Features of Disruption 572.4.2 Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies, and Tokens: The First Digitally Native Payment Rail 582.4.3 Social DAOs 602.4.4 Metaversal Existence: Life, Labor, and Leisure 622.4.5 Gaming on the Blockchain 632.5 Metaverse Economy and Community: Gamified Experiences 64References 66Chapter 3 The Multiverse: Infinite Possibility 673.1 Experience Innovation on the Digital Frontier 673.2 The Multiverse 693.2.1 Realms of Experience 693.2.2 Experience Design Canvas 733.3 Beyond the Metaverse Origins: Into the Future 743.3.1 Limitless Mind 753.3.2 Realm of the Infinite: The Eternal 75References 75Chapter 4 6G Vision and Next G Alliance Roadmap 774.1 6G Vision: Recent Progress and State of the Art 794.1.1 6G Paradigm Shifts 794.1.2 Value-Creation-and-Capture Problem 814.1.3 Perceptive Mobile Networks (PMNs) 814.1.4 Quantum-Enabled 6G Wireless Networks 824.1.5 From Softwarized to Blockchainized Mobile Networks 834.1.6 AI-Native 6G Networks 844.1.6.1 From 5G AI4Net to 6G Net4AI 844.1.6.2 Intelligence-Endogenous Network (IEN) 864.1.6.3 Native Edge AI: Mimicking Nature Through Brain-Inspired Stigmergy 874.1.7 THz Communications: An Old Problem Revisited 894.1.8 Comparison between NG-OANs and 6G RANs 904.1.9 6G Standardization Roadmap 914.2 NSF: Next G Research 924.3 Next G Alliance Roadmap 934.3.1 Six Audacious Goals 934.3.2 Societal and Economic Needs 954.3.3 The Four Fundamental Areas for 6G Applications and Use Cases 96References 98Chapter 5 6G Post-Smartphone Era: XR and Hybrid-Augmented Intelligence 1015.1 XR in the 6G Post-Smartphone Era 1015.1.1 Internet of No Things: The Gadget-Free Internet 1035.1.2 Extended Reality (XR): Unleashing Its Full Potential 1045.1.3 Invisible-to-Visible (I2V) Technologies 1055.1.4 Extrasensory Perception (ESP) 1075.1.5 Mimicking the Quantum Realm: Nonlocal Awareness of Space and Time 1085.1.5.1 Precognition 1095.1.5.2 Eternalism 1105.2 Hybrid-Augmented Intelligence 1145.2.1 Ethereum: The DAO 1165.2.2 DAO Use Case: Decentralizing Technosocial Systems 1175.2.2.1 The Tactile Internet: Key Principles 1185.2.2.2 FiWi-enhanced Mobile Networks: Spreading Ownership 1195.2.2.3 Decentralizing the Tactile Internet: AI-Enhanced MEC and Crowdsourcing 1205.2.3 From AI to Human Intelligence Amplification (IA) 1245.2.3.1 Cognitive Assistance 1245.2.3.2 Hybrid-Augmented Intelligence 1255.2.3.3 Decentralized Self-Organizing Cooperative 1255.2.4 Collective Intelligence: Nudging via Smart Contract 126References 128Chapter 6 Web3 and Token Engineering 1316.1 Emerging Web3 Token Economy 1316.2 Backend Revolution 1326.3 Technology-Enabled Social Organisms 1326.4 Tokens 1336.4.1 Tokenization: Creation of Tokenized Digital Twins 1336.4.2 Token Contract 1346.4.3 Fungible Tokens vs. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) 1346.4.4 Purpose-Driven Tokens 1366.4.4.1 Public Goods and Externalities 1366.4.4.2 Club Goods and Tech-Driven Public Goods 1376.5 Mechanism Design and Token Engineering 138References 140Chapter 7 From Robonomics to Tokenomics 1417.1 Robonomics 1417.2 Blockchain Oracles and On-Chaining 1427.3 Blockchain-Enabled Trust Game 1437.3.1 Open Research Challenges 1447.3.2 Blockchain-Enabled Implementation 1467.3.2.1 Experimenter Smart Contract 1467.3.2.2 Blockchain Mechanism Deposit 1477.3.2.3 Experimental Validation 1487.4 On-Chaining Oracle for Networked N-Player Trust Game 1507.4.1 Architecture of Oracle 1517.4.2 On-Chaining of Voting-Based Decisions 1537.4.3 Experimental Validation 1537.5 Playing the N-Player Trust Game with Persuasive Robots 1557.6 Tokenomics 161References 162Chapter 8 Society 5.0: Internet As If People Mattered 1658.1 Human Nature: Bounded Rationality and Predictable Irrationality 1668.2 Society 5.0: Human-Centeredness 1678.3 The Path (DAO) to a Human-Centered Society 1688.3.1 Token Engineering DAO Framework for Society 5.0 1688.3.2 The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society 1708.4 From Biological Superorganism to Stigmergic Society 1718.4.1 Stigmergy Enhanced Society 5.0: Toward the Future Stigmergic Society 1728.4.2 Implementation 1738.4.3 Experimental Results 1758.5 Biologization: Exiting the Anthropocene and Entering the Symbiocene 176References 178Chapter 9 Metahuman: Unleashing the Infinite Potential of Humans 1799.1 Becoming Human: The Biological Uniqueness of Humans 1799.1.1 Social Cognition 1809.1.2 Coordinated Decision-Making 1809.1.3 Uniquely Human Sociality 1829.1.4 How Evolution Makes Us Smarter and More Social 1839.2 Implications of Biological Human Uniqueness for Metaverse 1859.3 MetaHuman Creator: Building a More Realistic Virtual World 1899.3.1 Crossing the Uncanny Valley 1899.3.2 Infinite Reality: Embodied Avatars and Eternal Life 1909.3.2.1 Embodied Avatars 1919.3.2.2 Eternal Life: Virtual Immortality 1929.4 The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes 1939.4.1 Cognitive Science: From Token Economy to the World as a Network of Conscious Agents 1939.4.2 The Fitness-Beats-Truth Theorem 1949.5 Simulated Reality: The Simulation Hypothesis 1959.6 Metareality and Metahuman 1969.6.1 The Human Condition 1979.6.2 Deus Ex Machina 197References 198Chapter 10 Opportunities vs. Risks 20110.1 The "New New Normal" and Upcoming T Junction 20210.2 Opportunities 20710.2.1 An Inconvenient Truth for Everything: Earth Inc. vs. Global Mind 20710.2.2 The Social Singularity 20910.2.2.1 Social Physics and Human Hive Mind 20910.2.2.2 Ethereum: The World Computer 21010.2.2.3 Extended Stigmergy in Dynamic Media 21010.2.3 6G, Next G, and the Metaverse: Toward the Peak-Experience Machine 21110.2.3.1 The Experience Machine 21210.2.3.2 Toward Peak-Experiences 21210.2.3.3 Deus Ex Machina Technologies 21410.3 Risks 21510.3.1 Ray Kurzweil's Age of Spiritual Machines 21610.3.2 Platform Capitalism: Uberworked and Underpaid 21710.3.3 BUMMER Machine 2.0 21810.4 Team Human: From Communications to Communitas 22010.4.1 Self-Refuting Tech Prophecy 22110.4.2 The Human Strategy 22110.4.3 Understanding Thinking: From Silicon Valley and Computation to Human Reasoning and Intelligence 22210.4.4 Communitas: Fusion of Self and World 22510.4.4.1 Transcendent Experiences 22510.4.4.2 Communitas: Jumping the Gap into the Future 22610.4.5 Team Human: Are We in the Midst of the Next Renaissance? 228References 230Chapter 11 Conclusion and Outlook 23311.1 Today's Life in "Parallel Universes" 23311.2 The Road Ahead to the Future Multiverse: 6G, Next G, and the Metaverse 23511.2.1 Metaverse: Mirror of Real World Rather than Virtual Escape Hatch 23511.2.2 Overcoming 6G and Next G Blind Spots 23711.2.3 Super Smart Society 5.0: From Galileo's Telescope to Metaverse's Telóscope 24211.3 Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance 24711.3.1 The Formula for Mass Flourishing 24811.3.2 Cognitive Blind Spots: Social Complexity vs. Cognitive Capacity 250References 252Epilogue 253Index 257

O autorze

Martin Maier, PhD, is a Full Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Montréal, Québec. Among other awards, he was named one of the three most promising scientists in the category "Contributions to a better society" of the Marie SkBodowska-Curie Actions Prize Award. He is co-author of the prequel book Toward 6G: A New Era of Convergence (Wiley-IEEE Press, January 2021).