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What is the metaverse? A short history.

The metaverse is a vision of what many in the computer industry believe is the next interaction of the internet: a single, shared, immersive, persistent, 3D virtual space where humans have experienced life in ways they could not in the physical world.

Some of the technologies that provide access to this virtual world, such as Virtual Reality (VR) headsets and Augmented Reality (AR) glasses, are evolving quickly; other critical components of the metaverse, such as adequate bandwidth or interoperability standards, are probably years off or might never materialize.

The concept is not new: the term metaverse was coined in 1992 by author Neal Stephenson in his sci-fi novel Snow Crash, and work on the technologies that underpin a virtual reality-based internet date back decades. Organizations are also deploying VR for employee safety training, particularly in settings where employee mistakes can cause harm, Asim added. The industrial metaverse will link digital twins into a wider virtual environment that encompasses machines, factories, products and supply chains.

(Texto Adaptado. Disponível em: https://www.techtarget.com/ whatis/feature/The-metaverse-explained-Everything-you--need-to-know. Acesso em: 30 out. 2023)

Leia a frase: “Some of the technologies that provide access to this virtual world, such as virtual reality (VR) headsets and augmented reality (AR) glasses, are evolving quickly”.

 

Assinale a alternativa que responda quais são as classes gramaticais das palavras em destaque, respectivamente?

 The long school closures during the Covid pandemic were the biggest disruption in the history of modern American education. And those closures changed the way many students and parents think about school. Attendance, in short, has come to feel more optional than it once did, and absenteeism has soared, remaining high even as Covid has stopped dominating everyday life.

 On an average day last year — the 2022-23 school year — close to 10 percent of K-12 students were not there, preliminary state data suggests. About one quarter of U.S. students qualified as chronically absent, meaning that they missed at least 10 percent of school days (or about three and a half weeks). That’s a vastly higher share than before Covid.

 “I’m just stunned by the magnitude,” said Thomas Dee, a Stanford economist who has conducted the most comprehensive study on the issue.

 In Dee’s study, he looked for explanations for the trend, and the obvious suspects didn’t explain it. Places with a greater Covid spread did not have higher lingering levels of absenteeism, for instance. The biggest reason for the rise seems to be simply that students have fallen out of the habit of going to school every day.

Disponível em: www.nytimes.com. Acesso em: 14 set. 2023 (adaptado).

 

According to Dee’s research, the current situation regarding absenteeism in American schools is mainly happening because

We are all born 
in a different way 
How we look 
and what we say 
From different countries 
around the world 
of different genders: 
boys and girls 
of many sizes 
and colors, too 
The things we like 
and the things we do 
We’re sure glad 
it works this way 
The world is so colorful 
everyday 

GORGONE, J. Disponível em: https://www.chegg.com. Acesso em: 15 set. 2023.

 

The main objective of the text is:

Afterlives, by Abdulrazak Gurnah (2020)

Nobel prize-winner Gurnah depicts a version of the first world war hardly ever taught or discussed in western Europe.

The novel traces the experience of a small cast of characters in what was then German East Africa (now Tanzania) leading up to, during and after the war. Gurnahs signature stripped-back prose explores the violence of war visited on the multi-ethnic communities of east Africa. The depiction of the violence is forensic and harrowing, and linked to the fates of his protagonists.

At the heart of the novel is the story of Hamza, a young man broken by his time f ighting for the German colonial army the so-called Schutztruppe and his return to life after the end of the war.

The novel highlights poignantly the limits of European narratives of war and especially the limitations of colonial archives for documenting and reclaiming the stories of Africans in the first world war.

Penguin Random House

Disponível em: https://theconversation.com/. Acesso em: 27 abr. 2024.

 

A partir da descrição do romance, o enfoque central da obra está

Disponível em: https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/. Acesso em: 22 abr. 2024.

 

No cartum, o terceiro quadrinho traz um sentido cômico quando o homem acredita que está tendo uma troca de sentimentos entre ele e a Chatbot, um software baseado em IA.

 

Então, ele faz algumas perguntas à Chatbot sobre

Trash or Recycling? Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing.
Did you know the  symbol doesn’t mean something is actually recyclable? 
Play our trashy garbage-sorting game. Then, read on about how we got 
here, and what can be done.

 

Drag each item where you think it belongs

By Winston Choi-Schagrin and Hiroko Tabuchi 
Illustrations by Rinee Shah April 21, 2022

 

The universal symbol for re-use, known as the “chasing arrows” logo, is stamped on so many things. But that doesn’t mean they could be re-used.

 

Manufacturers can print the logo on just about any product. That’s because its main purpose isn’t to say whether it’s recyclable, but to identify the type of plastic it’s made from. (For example, if there’s a “3” in the center, it’s PVC, which most curbside recycling programs don’t accept.) The logo is so widely misunderstood that last year California banned its use on things that aren’t recyclable.

 

There are efforts to improve the system.

Disponível em: www.nytimes.com/interactive/. Acesso em: 22 abr. 2024.

 

Segundo o texto do New York Time, a frase chansig arrows é bastante usada em rótulos de diversas coisas. Mesmo assim, nem todos produtos podem ser considerados