When tech companies made bold announcements about the shift into decentralized technologies and the metaverse, some cities broke (digital) ground on new infrastructure and services. Source
Verdict The same phenomenon is listed again within two editions under a new name (D33 ). Continued as ftsg-tech-trends-2024-167
Public-sector metaverse buildout continues as government investment, one step broader (cities to nations).
A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6 , D33 ).
All captured fields
rank 497
section Government, Policy & Security
subsection State and Local Initiatives
subject Metaverse Cities
years on list 2ND YEAR ON THE LIST
page 583
confidence high
note Read from the text layer of the archived Scribd copy of the full 2023 report (no font information); page is the page of the full report. Permalink
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Hindsight, claim ftsg-tech-trends-2023-497, renamed as of 2026-10-03. Envisioning. https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/ftsg-tech-trends-2023-497
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