This Technology Is Growing 893 Times Faster Than the Internet

It's no exaggeration to say that COVID-19 has changed everything about our day-to-day lives... Think back to life in January 2020... We commuted to work, sometimes in a subway with hundreds or even thousands of strangers... spent time sitting shoulder-to-shoulder in busy conference rooms... hopped on a plane and traveled across the country for work […] Not rendering correctly? View this e-mail as a web page [here](. [Empire Financial Daily Weekend] This Technology Is Growing 893 Times Faster Than the Internet By Enrique Abeyta --------------------------------------------------------------- [Changing how we do business]( Empire Financial Research has just changed forever... And we couldn't be more excited. This change has been years in the making, and we're finally ready to begin. [Please click here to see the details](. --------------------------------------------------------------- It's no exaggeration to say that COVID-19 has changed everything about our day-to-day lives... Think back to life in January 2020... We commuted to work, sometimes in a subway with hundreds or even thousands of strangers... spent time sitting shoulder-to-shoulder in busy conference rooms... hopped on a plane and traveled across the country for work and leisure... and spent the weekend at shopping malls, working out at the gym, or going out to dinner. Fast-forward to today and many of those activities have gone out the window. Now, we schedule six Zoom (ZM) meetings in a day without thinking twice. After work, we reach for our smartphones to order food on Uber Eats and settle in to watch a show on Netflix (NFLX) after FaceTiming with our loved ones. In the span of a year, we're suddenly spending more and more time online, interacting in completely new ways. We're also spending more of our disposable income online than ever before. And it's not just our behavior that has changed. Our kids' behavior is changing, too... Whether we want to admit it or not, our kids and grandkids regularly spend hours a day on their iPads, learning, playing, socializing, and interacting with other kids in completely new ways. Take my 8-year-old son Kai, for example. Three years ago, my wife and I enrolled him in coding class, and he started working on Minecraft. It's a completely open-ended "sandbox" game that allows players to spend their time however they'd like – just like The Sims back in the early 2000s. In these games, there are no winners or losers. Users can exist in the virtual world, doing all kinds of random activities: building things, walking around, and interacting with other users in a completely unstructured setting. --------------------------------------------------------------- Recommended Link: [Revealed: Apple's future iPhone design]( You're looking at the details of a patent application that Apple quietly filed in 2021 for a flexible iPhone. The unique screen in the design blueprint could be the result of a new technology that is going to change our lives. Forbes calls it "the next Industrial Revolution." It will help make everything cheaper, faster, better, and safer... from smartphone screens to computer chips, to vaccines, to construction materials, and more. And one little-known company is leading this revolution. Getting in early could lead to huge profits. But you'll have to do it before the news of this company reaches the masses. [Click here before it's too late](. --------------------------------------------------------------- No one could have predicted the worldwide, all-encompassing digital transformation we've undergone over the past two years... Studies show that the average U.S. adult now spends 16 hours a day on some form of digital media, up more than 25% from before the pandemic. To be clear, these hours count overlapping activities concurrently, so streaming a podcast for two hours while working on the computer counts as four hours of digital media. But even so, we have unmistakably moved in a direction of spending less time going out to eat, sitting in our cars, visiting the mall, and doing other in-person activities... and more time in the so-called "metaverse." The term first came up in 1992, in Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, an exploration of then-futuristic technologies like mobile computing, virtual reality ("VR"), wireless Internet, digital currency, smartphones, and augmented-reality ("AR") headsets. The idea of the metaverse was revisited again in the Ernest Cline novel (and later, movie) Ready Player One. Set in 2045, people sought to escape reality through the ontologically anthropocentric sensory immersive simulation ("OASIS"), a virtual reality simulation. While this is straight out of a science-fiction novel, seeds of the metaverse have existed in the real world for some time now. Have you ever used an avatar on an online community like Reddit? Have you played a video game like World of Warcraft? Do you own a non-fungible token ("NFT") or even a cryptocurrency? If so, you've already had a taste of the metaverse. Consider one of Meta Platforms' (FB) recent earnings calls. The word "metaverse" came up 20 times in the 65-minute call, mostly out of the mouth of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who described the social media giant's plans to begin developing an immersive 3D, Internet-like experience. The funny thing is that Wall Street types have always been metaverse people. Think about it: Unless you were on the actual trading floor, every other trader or investor lived in some obscure universe for decades. Stocks and bonds trade on an invisible ledger stored on a remote server. Communication between parties was virtual. Currency never traded hands, but rather through virtual accounts and software code that recorded all their activity with a bunch of zeros and ones. In fact, only 2% of the trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") is carried out by means of traditional "open outcry" trading, where people gather in person to trade securities. The other 98% of NYSE trades are executed via electronic communication networks ("ECNs"), which, over the past 10 years, have increasingly replaced trading floors as the main global venues for buying and selling every asset, derivative, and contract. So, the ECNs are the real markets today, and those pit traders who pose for the cameras are mainly there for just that... the cameras. The point is, the metaverse is very real... Billions, if not trillions, of incremental hours from here on out will be spent in it. And as more and more people spend time in the digital world, incredibly lucrative investment opportunities will begin to emerge. In fact, in a special presentation, my colleague Whitney Tilson not only discusses his top five stocks to take advantage of the metaverse as it continues to grow exponentially... But he's even agreed to give away the full details on his No. 1 metaverse stock for free – no e-mail address or credit card required. [Learn more here](. Regards, Enrique Abeyta April 23, 2022 If someone forwarded you this e-mail and you would like to be added to my e-mail list to receive e-mails like this every weekday, simply [sign up here](. © 2022 Empire Financial Research. All rights reserved. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution, in whole or in part, is prohibited without written permission from Empire Financial Research, 601 Lexington Ave., 20th Floor, New York, NY 10022 [www.empirefinancialresearch.com.]( You received this e-mail because you are subscribed to Empire Financial Daily. [Unsubscribe from all future e-mails](