definition first: an asynchronous event offers freedom to all its participants. these instances don’t happen together; or, at least, they still work if they happen separately.

as we kind of suggested on the previous page (the one about synchronous events), asynchronous stuff is therefore much much cooler. you can listen to a voicemail when you please. you don’t have to jump on and hop to someone else’s timeline.

facebook is asynchronous as hell: you post a comment or story and then it sits around for others to pick up at their leisure. maybe days of life. maybe, if the algorithms decide, no life at all.

but the potential exists always.

and you can choose when to absorb and understand.

a business based on asynchronicity is likely to generate far more groundswell, far more crowd, far more quickly, and for much much longer.

facebook has billions of users.

or it did, anyway.

the metaverse is often measured in the hundreds of thousands — or even just thousands. It’s been going on for a long while, too. microsoft does lots of fun technology which its fans really enjoy — and tbh, it is really enjoyable … even for a gom like me.

but it’s not very practical in a modern, fractured life.

you have to arrange to log on together. we simply don’t, really don’t, do this sort of malarkey any more.

that’s why zoom, teams, meets, the venerable skype, meta’s metaverse, and a whole bunch of other tech solutions being proposed and delivered, and then rejigged desperately — and quite mistakenly … well … why they’re all only TWEAKING what meetings are about.

nothing more.

and so nobody, but nobody, is aiming to actually DISRUPT.

that is, get rid of meetings altogether.

except us.