Tyrone Taborn recently published his latest book At STEM City USA. Metaquake USA: What is the Metaverse and how it will shape your future It incorporates the views of some of the people behind the internet revolution. They include Mark Dean, Melvin Greer, Chris Jones, Colin Paris, Joseph Soter and Kevin Korngay. Metaquake is now available online. Amazon
Their stories provide insight into the technologies powering the metaverse, including augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), games, cryptocurrencies, blockchain and more that enable ownership of virtual objects in the STEM City USA metaverse. To do.
“This book began on the STEM City USA Metaverse platform with virtual interviews recorded for the Metaquake USA talk series,” writes Taborn. “We wanted our first book on the Metaverse to start with the Metaverse, but it showed the endless possibilities of virtual networks focused on social connections.”
In this book, based on the 2006 New York Times bestselling technology chapter edited by Tavis Smiley, Taborn argues that people of color have been losers in every industrial age.
In his preface, H. Russell Frisby, Jr., an expert on regulatory and corporate issues arising as the energy and telecommunications industries change, states that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to involve Black people in telecommunications. Over 30 years of telling how they were encouraged. in front.
“The conference focused on opportunities in the long-distance resale and cellular market as barriers to entry were low at the time, as everyone was on a level playing field from ground zero,” he wrote. increase.
Sadly, during the first and second generations of the telecommunications revolution, many key opportunities were lost as Black-owned businesses focused on healthcare and social assistance, transportation and warehousing. .
Nonetheless, Taborn is confident that minorities are ready to seize the day with Web3 as new avenues open up in metaverse development. This includes the metaverse, VR, AR, and digital assets such as cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Currently, 66.1% of computer scientists are white, 25% are Asian, and 1% are black or African American.
Colin Parris, senior vice president and chief technology officer at GE Digital, said:
Ted Childs, Principal of Ted Childs LLC, describes Metaquake as a 21st century opportunity to bridge the digital divide using metaverses such as STEM City USA.
White men dominate the private tech industry, according to a recent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) report. One study found that at a Silicon Valley tech company, 57% of employees were white, 36% were Asian American, 1.6% were Hispanic, and less than 1% were African American.
In his latest collaboration, Metaquake USA, author Taborn highlights the successes, challenges, and lessons learned by blacks in the tech industry. Each chapter of the book includes significant contributions from award-winning black computer scientists, engineers, and technicians.
Using his leadership position and influence to provide opportunities for minority youth and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), Nicholas D’Onofrio, a 44-year IBM veteran, will join Tabone’s He describes the book as “well done”.
“I have known Tyrone Tabone for half a century and he has lived a life of extraordinary dedication to bridging the gap between race and inequality. We are betting on an important new agenda that is much needed for the future,” wrote Daniel Hirsch, former program director of environmental and nuclear policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and chairman of the Bridging the Gap Commission. I’m here.
In 1986, Taborn founded and became Chairman and CEO of Career Communications Group, Inc., a talent management and career development firm that publishes US Black Engineer & Information Technology, Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology, and Women of Color magazines. rice field. He also produced the award-winning syndicate his TV show, Success Through Education. In 2006, Taborn was a contributor to The Covenant with Black America, a New York Times bestseller edited by Tavis Smiley. (“Tyrone Taborn—Career Communications Group, Inc.”) Taborn is the founder of the Black Family Technology Week Program, La Familia Technology Awareness Week, and the Native American Technology Awareness Project. Metaquake is now available online. Amazon.
