Opportunities and Risks of the “Metaverse” For Biodiversity and the Environment

Rillig, Matthias C.; Gould, Kenneth A.; Maeder, Marcus; Kim, Shin Woong; Dueñas, Juan F.; Pinek, Liliana; Lehmann, Anika; Bielcik, Milos

doi:10.1021/acs.est.2c01562

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“…The first point to consider is the positive or negative direct environmental impact (Figure ). Other potentially transformative technological innovations, such as the metaverse, likely will have direct consequences on the environment via increased energy use and thus resource consumption and production of carbon dioxide. This clearly is also a concern for LLMs, with both the training of LLMs and inference having large energy demands, prompting an early call for algorithmic efficiency .…”

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Risks and Benefits of Large Language Models for the Environment

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Risks and Benefits of Large Language Models for the Environment

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“…The metaverse, also known as a "collective virtual shared space", is thought to be the foundation for the future generation of the Internet, which will incorporate all virtual worlds. The metaverse could be a further step in the digital revolution, a step that, if not thoroughly prepared, could also be accompanied by risky social, political, and also environmental implications (Rillig, 2022). For individuals, it could imply a possibility of expansion of human boundaries beyond material limitations.…”

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Overlapping cities: Trans-urban augmentation in the digital era of western cities

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2023

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The digital revolution has produced and is still creating new lifestyles that are being reflected in a new urban revolution which sees the overlapping of different environments to enrich the urban experience and respond to emergent necessities. It leads to a dissolution of the strictly defined spaces and uses to create hybrid places that colonize the urban environment. The dualities of public and private, of exterior and interior, of work and leisure, of man and woman, of house and city, are then changing, and with them also the traditional pillars of the modern society. The digital is overlapping the material, changing the urban organizational structure through new relationship between people, city and technology in a new reality recently dubbed the “metaverse”. Most of the spatial needs are then transformed, opening up to a profound rethinking of the structure of places and of the meaning itself of urban environment. The article analyses the current relationship between the material and the virtual by identifying the possible resulting spatial emergencies.

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“…Meanwhile, the rising metaverse concept and AR/VR technology increasing stimulate the demand for high‐quality high‐resolution immersive‐experience displays. [ 22,23 ] Wearable and implantable applications provide a direction for EL devices, which are not only confined to portable cell phones and watches but are even able to receive and transmit information on the skin and tissue. Therefore, it is necessary to develop high‐stable, high‐flexible and high‐brightness EL sources to replace the traditional ones, and high‐resolution and large‐area displays.…”

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Flexible Quantum Dot Light‐Emitting Device for Emerging Multifunctional and Smart Applications

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Quantum dot light‐emitting diodes (QLEDs), owing to their exceptional performances in device efficiency, color purity/tunability in the visible region and solution‐processing ability on various substrates, become a potential candidate for flexible and ultrathin electroluminescent (EL) lighting and display. Moreover, beyond the lighting and display, flexible QLEDs are enabled with endless possibilities in the era of the internet of things and artificial intelligence by acting as input/output ports in wearable integrated systems. Challenges remain in the development of flexible QLEDs with the goals for high performance, excellent flexibility/even stretchability, and emerging applications. In this paper, the recent developments of QLEDs including quantum dot materials, working mechanism, flexible/stretchable strategies and patterning strategies, and highlight its emerging multifunctional integrations and smart applications covering wearable optical medical devices, pressure‐sensing EL devices, and neural smart EL devices, are reviewed. The remaining challenges are also summarized and an outlook on the future development of flexible QLEDs made. The review is expected to offer a systematic understanding and valuable inspiration for flexible QLEDs to simultaneously satisfy optoelectronic and flexible properties for emerging applications.

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Opportunities and Risks of the “Metaverse” For Biodiversity and the Environment

Cited by 26 publications

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Risks and Benefits of Large Language Models for the Environment

Risks and Benefits of Large Language Models for the Environment

Overlapping cities: Trans-urban augmentation in the digital era of western cities

Flexible Quantum Dot Light‐Emitting Device for Emerging Multifunctional and Smart Applications

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