Meta means beyond, and universe has been added to it. It is a complex digital environment. It consists of several elements and is evolving.

The most common characteristic that has led to the possibility of such a world is data explosion. Data traffic too is, therefore, explosive — 1G was about analogue voice calls, 2G about digital voice communication, 3G about web browsing and 4G about mobile broadband. 5G services are soon arriving. It deals with not only explosion of data but the speed of data transmission too.

IoT represents an interconnected world of billions of devices. Clouds are being adopted. Data is analysed on clouds.

There is AR/VR and robotics. There is AI and NLP. There is speech-to-text and computer vision. There is ML. There is live streaming. There are cryptos. There are expressways in the sky.

The world is getting ready for a metaverse.