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Once the domain of the manufacturing environment, digital twins are increasingly being
designed, developed, and used to model our physical world. Examples include digital
twins of our brains, bodies, homes, towns and cities, counties, states, countries,
continents, oceans, and even the Earth, with Europe’s Destination Earth Program (DestinE)
(https://destination-earth.eu). Yet, like most of our organizational structures, these
digital twins are almost always siloed, not integrated or integratable, and therefore,
suboptimized for a truly systematic, system of systems view of the entire Earth.
Simultaneously, most view the Metaverse as only a gaming environment, and while, games
are important, and generate significant revenue both nationally and globally, we instead,
should view the Metaverse, as a virtual representation of the Universe. Like metadata
– structured data that describes and explains other data – the metaverse is (or should
be) structured data that describes and explains the universe.
In order to deliver on such a vision, then all digital twins that are created for,
and/or about, our physical environment need to be linked. During this presentation,
both challenges and opportunities will be explored based on the author’s 50-year career
working in the national and international public and not-for-profit sectors.
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