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Hyundai declared that people will be riding in flying vehicles by 2030 and recently they took first big step in order to fulfill this mission. The company invested in british startup called Urban-Air Port that has plan to build over 200 flying taxi hubs in 65 diffrent countries , in the next 5 years.

But vechincles are not the only factor to consider in on-demand taxi buiness. The success of this companies like Uber are built around the simplicity and accesability of reserving a ride. The customer just needs to select where he wanna be drop-off and in the matter of minute he can be there. It’s easy with cars because everywhere we have architecture built for this kind of travel. On the contrary many cities are not designed for any kind of flying vechicles so the adaptation of the technology can be a difficult proccess

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Nirmala Sitharaman finance minister of India announced that all of digital crypto assets will be placed in highest tax bond. It means that around 20 million investors will have significantly lower revenue starting from this year.

According to studies there are around 400 bilion rupees (5,7 billion $) of crypto assets stored in india. The new regulations can signifcantly reduce this number.” If you made a profit of 100 rupees then including the 30% tax bracket, plus surcharge and cess the total tax outgo will be around 42 rupees,” said Amit Maheshwari, partner at AKM Global. This regulations can really disturb the market balance in India, but some people are seeing a good side of this crypto ,,acknowledgement”

“Thirty percent tax on income from virtual digital assets, while high, is a positive step as it legitimises crypto and hints at an optimistic sentiment towards further acceptance of crypto and NFTs,” said Avinash Shekhar, chief executive of ZebPay, a cryptocurrency exchange.

To summarize in the short-term this new proposed regulations can negatively impact crypto market in India but in a bigger picture this sets the groundwork for adopting De-Fi ona bigger scale

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-01/india-to-launch-central-bank-digital-currency-next-fiscal-year

Back in October 2021 Facebook anounced that company will rebrand itself into ,,Meta” – in the effort to embrace the metaverse concept

“The metaverse is essentially a massive, interconnected network of virtual spaces. In theory, we’ll be able to move from one virtual world to another in the metaverse, but we’ll be wearing virtual reality goggles or maybe augmented reality.” says Rabindra Ratan profesor at Michigane state University

Technologies that are currently very well developed(such as VR googles, will play a crucial role in bringing metaverse to life. Companies like Meta are already investing in branches related to the metaverse as they try to enter this market and beat their competition. Tech giants trying to monopolize this decentralized space just as they did with WEB3. It raised concern aoround the question if the metaverse will really be a decentralized space or just a new stage of WEB2.

Nevertheless it is important to monitor this new concept as Metaverse concept with will be much more present in our daily life

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https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/metaverse-impact-world-future-technology/story?id=82419587