Microsoft’s Jared Spataro on How the Pandemic Sped Up Technological Change (and Moved Us Closer to the Metaverse)
Avatars, holograms, and other metaverse technologies will facilitate human connection in the months and years ahead.
March 18, 2022
Summary.
Jared Spataro, whose team at Microsoft studies the future of work, thinks physical offices are for building social capital. When we’re together in person, the interactions and conversations are so rich with cues and clues that they fill our “social capital bank accounts” back up. Spataro and his team speculate about how communication and productivity technologies can one day match the in-person “bitrate that you’re transmitting signals to each other”.