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

With the online-everything transformation and mass digital adoption of remote work and online social activities accelerated by the global Covid-19 pandemic, we may find ourselves on the verge of something big and potentially paradigm-shifting: The Metaverse - the precursor of the future Multiverse. The Metaverse and Multiverse have in common that they aim at realizing the fusion of digital and real worlds across all dimensions created and delivered by non-traditional converged service platforms of future 6G and Next G networks, where developers do not hesitate to use technologies from as many disciplines as possible. The range of disciplines that must come together to build a deeper Metaverse involve not only communications and computer science but also cognitive science, neuroscience, social sciences, psychology, and behavioral economics.

This book will be instrumental in helping the reader find and overcome some of the most common 6G and Next G blind spots. It points to three spheres of contexts, each with a different narrative for the year 2030 and beyond, to help better understand the potential benefits and risks of the Metaverse and Multiverse. Further, the book weaves emerging themes carefully together in 6G and Next G networks, underpinned by decentralized Web3 technology in support of the future token economy, the successor of today's platform economy, where anyone's contribution is compensated with tokens whose different types and roles are still in the very early stages of research.

Wearable devices will become common place, enabling future communication technologies that fold into our physical and biological environments. Human transformation will be realized through unifying experiences across the physical, biological, and digital worlds. New virtual worlds will be blended with the digital twin world to create a mixed-reality world that enables new superhuman capabilities, leveraging on the collective intelligence of all humans combined with the collective behavior of all machines, plus the intelligence of nature, plus whatever behavior emerges from this global matrix.