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Thought Behind Things · Aug 2, 2023 · 1:48:41

What web3 actually means once you strip out the money

Talha Bin Afzal runs a Pakistani web3 services studio building on Unity and Unreal. He takes Muzamil past the NFT hype to the part that lasts — ownership — and then explains why Pakistan keeps reskinning games instead of building them.

with Talha Bin Afzal

12 min read

A PAF brat, a year of English literature, and the confidence that came after

The episode opens with Muzamil being unusually candid about why he booked the guest. He is about to travel to Dubai, where a lot of the work around web3 and the metaverse is concentrated, and he would rather not arrive and “look foolish” trying to talk about a field he only half understands. So he wanted an intro to web3 from someone who works in it daily. That someone is Talha Bin Afzal, co-founder and CEO of Algorite, a Pakistani studio that builds web3 services — games and metaverse experiences on Unity and Unreal — for startups around the world.

Before any of the technology, the conversation winds back through Talha’s life. He describes himself as a “PAF brat,” moving between cities and schools across Pakistan, then hitting a sharp cultural shock in 2009 when his family moved to Rome and he did the International Baccalaureate at a British international school. The detail he lingers on is English literature. He was good at the sciences — same formula, same exam logic — but the similes, the symbolism and the metaphors were a different language. He even asked his teacher whether he could switch to Urdu literature instead. The teacher told him he could, but no one there would teach it; he’d be on his own. His father said do it anyway: the worst case is lower marks. Talha pushed through the first year, then spent a summer watching films with subtitles and joining Model United Nations until the grip came.

Muzamil pulls a wider point out of that story. The barrier, he argues, was never really language — it was confidence. He notes that under his own podcast, people leave comments asking why he speaks English when “all Pakistanis speak Urdu,” and he finds it strange that a country obsessed with exports and being global citizens resists the global language. Talha agrees, and adds a contrast from Europe: his classmates spoke broken English to each other and nobody corrected anyone’s past participles, because it was simply a medium of communication. The lesson both land on is small and practical — speak it however badly, just enough that the other person understands, and encourage people instead of laughing at them.

From a borderline admission to six years inside Pakistan’s IT policy

Talha’s route into computer science was almost accidental. He had applied to do electrical engineering at the Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE), but his IB equivalency came back around 50%, below the cutoff. The department head offered him a place in the new computer science program instead. When his final equivalency was later recalculated at 68% — enough for electrical engineering after all — he had already started CS. He treats it the way he treats most of his story: as luck protecting him from his own preference. “Sometimes God is protecting you from your own mistakes.”

Being the first batch of a brand-new program had one real advantage. The university was hand-picking faculty — PhDs and masters returning from places like Georgia Tech — so the teaching was strong even if the campus, then tucked under the Sir Syed Memorial Museum, looked more like a community college than a university. After internships and a short stint as a software engineer at DPL, he made the move that defined the next phase. A former boss, about to chair PASHA — the Pakistan Software Houses Association — asked him to come along.

He spent roughly six years there, and he describes it as an education in the whole machinery of the industry. He worked on membership and on events from small meetups up to the PASHA ICT Awards and the regional APICTA awards. More substantively, he sat inside the regulatory and policy discussions: why Pakistan should sign the Information Technology Agreement to drop customs duties on IT imports, and how taxation on IT exports should be handled. In 2016 he worked on a campaign to extend the zero-rated tax treatment on IT exports, getting it pushed first to 2019 and then to 2025. The hardest part, he says, was not the policy — it was assembling a community of CEOs who instinctively wanted to stay as far from government as possible. He later served as acting secretary general for about a year and a half, through the peak of COVID, a period he argues was the single biggest accelerant for Pakistan’s digital economy.

Why leave a clear path to start a Web3 studio

Muzamil presses the obvious question. Talha had a clean career trajectory — policy roles, an association leadership track, a network of C-level contacts. Why walk away to start a software house, and specifically one in a field with almost no local work? Talha admits he had always assumed he’d start his own business eventually; he had simply never exercised the muscle. The job offers on the table — an oil-and-gas technology firm, a co-working company — were safe. His logic was that if he didn’t start now, he never would.

The choice of web3 came from two places. One was personal taste: he calls himself a visual person, drawn to graphics, CGI and immersive, interactive spaces. The other was a frustration with where Pakistani games had stalled — titles that only ran on the Play Store, usually reskinned clones of something else. He wanted to start where adoption starts. “Gamers are always the first adopters everywhere in the world,” he says, and from games you can move into the more interactive, immersive experiences web3 enables, while doing the outsourced work that studios abroad want done.

The web, retold as a story about ownership

This is the part Muzamil came for, and Talha gives the cleanest version of it. He retells the history of the web as a story about permissions. Web1 was the early-2000s internet of plain pages: text written by media houses, companies and institutions, where you as a user could only read. One-way. Web2 was the YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia and Google era — read and write, with user-generated content. But, he stresses, you never owned what you posted. Facebook’s guidelines made the content theirs in some form; your “ownership” was just that it sat under your account, and even deleting it didn’t remove it from their data.

Web3 adds the missing verb: read, write, and own. The ownership runs on a decentralized, community-backed peer-to-peer network built on a blockchain, rather than on Facebook’s or Google’s servers. That, he explains, is the actual point of NFTs. Digital assets — images, videos — always existed; what was missing was provable ownership of them. An NFT is just a digital asset with a trackable ownership token attached. Muzamil sharpens it: the monkey picture everyone laughed at is a symptom, not the use case. The real utility lands when platforms start refusing uploads that don’t carry a verifiable ownership trail, and route royalties automatically when someone else’s token is used. Both of them are blunt about the froth — when celebrities throw money at something, it spikes, people pile in hoping to double their money overnight, and “that runs like a Ponzi scheme.” The settling, where community-backed currencies and NFTs find their actual value, is the healthy part.

Democratizing the business, not just the consumer

The most interesting turn in the conversation is Muzamil’s, and Talha confirms it. Most coverage of decentralized apps frames the benefit as consumer-side — TBT owns its data, the viewer owns theirs. But the deeper shift, Muzamil argues, is that web3 democratizes the business side. Historically a company is one genius and a product that scales, with power concentrated in a founder and a board. Public markets opened a sliver of that by letting people buy stock, but minority shareholders never really decide anything, and never fly in to cast their small vote. A decentralized network pushes that decision-making into the community itself: if a product turns damaging, the community can change it, rather than one person steering it.

Talha extends it to the infrastructure. Anyone can dedicate servers to a community’s network — virtual or your own machines — bear that cost, and earn a share back in the network’s token for the value provided. You can even build that contribution on rented capacity from Azure, AWS and Google. So a small operator hosting TBT on a decentralized “new YouTube” could plug in a few servers, earn a percentage every time content is accessed, and effectively own a slice of the platform’s plumbing the way they’d buy a tiny stake in a growing company. The cost question — that running something like YouTube is enormously expensive — gets a real answer: the video isn’t hosted in one place but split into chunks across the network, and the community’s actual job over time is optimizing compression and latency so a TBT video plays as well in Nigeria as in the US.

Decentralized finance, and the case against swapping one hegemony for another

Both of them note that the apps get less attention than the money, and DeFi is far more popular than DApps, mostly because of cryptocurrencies. Talha ties this to the changing world order. The standard framing — “dollar hegemony is bad, so move away from it” — too often means moving toward Chinese hegemony instead, and he doesn’t buy it. “You can’t hop from one to another.” The real progression, he argues, is refusing to let any single country decide a protocol that it will inevitably steer. That’s the frame in which Bitcoin starts to make sense to people who distrust both poles. Muzamil adds the institutional tell: financial heavyweights like BlackRock, which once pushed hard to regulate crypto, are now positioning to own a piece of it — because eventually it bypasses them.

Metaverse as a framework, and the headset that’s still version one

When the conversation reaches the metaverse, Talha starts with the history — Neal Stephenson coining the term in a 1992 novel, the 2003 game Second Life giving it a user-generated shape — and then defines it as an immersive, interactive replica of the real world. His examples are concrete and personal: praying at Al-Aqsa or walking the streets of Medina through VR, made real through haptic feedback and gloves that go cold when you touch water; trying on a shirt on an avatar shaped exactly like you before buying it. Crucially, he and Muzamil agree the metaverse is a framework, not a product owned by one company — a more immersive layer over the internet that no one owns and anyone can build on. The danger, Talha notes, is reverting to App Store and Play Store dynamics; if Meta’s marketplace only runs on Meta’s headset, “why are we even talking about web3?”

Muzamil’s real interest isn’t gaming but work. Post-COVID, after the Zoom fatigue and the invasive every-five-seconds-screenshot surveillance, he sees the strongest use case in a virtual office — a cubicle you can sit in, where a colleague can walk over and ask what you’re working on, restoring the intuitive experience the office used to provide. They wander, with obvious enjoyment, into the further future: separating transmission from processing as 5G and 6G arrive, so the heavy compute lives in the cloud and the device is just a display; and Neuralink building sensation directly in the brain a decade or more out, dissolving the need for clunky gear entirely. Both keep returning to a sober point about the present hardware. Apple’s Vision Pro demo looked, to Muzamil, like the first real “iPhone moment” in years — but the headset is still the bulky version one, two-hour battery and all. Talha would rather reach that experience through lighter wearables: glasses, a pendant, light gloves, the way people wear earphones instead of clamping on a headset.

The talent gap, and why no-code changes who gets to build

The conversation closes on Pakistan, where Talha is sharpest because it’s his daily problem. Algorite works on metaverse and game projects for clients across the US, Europe and East Asia, and the recurring use cases are existing web2 games trying to move to web3, and founders starting from games because that’s where imagination starts. But hiring is the bottleneck. Pakistan’s art has improved — he names Lahore studios doing strong work — but the engineering side, the actual building in Unreal, is still weak. The reason is historical: for years the local game industry chased Play Store money through reskinning and cloning, optimizing for quantity over quality, and never developed the finish that real engineering demands.

He and Muzamil are careful to locate the failure correctly. The sloppiness that shows up across Pakistani engineering — in apps, in games — is not a sign the talent can’t do it. It’s a product-owner and project-management failure: someone has to translate a client’s idea into clean, well-scoped work, and someone has to be willing to spend the 500 hours a character’s natural movement actually takes. The hopeful note is no-code. Unreal’s blueprints mean you don’t need a computer-science background to build; you need critical thinking. A strong programmer with no game experience became productive in five to six months; a genuinely sharp newcomer could get there in six to eight months of making, not just learning. Muzamil’s analogy is a 17-year-old who edits video on his phone and, handed Premiere for the first time, produces something a university graduate couldn’t — because the bottleneck was never the tool, it was the mind using it. That, both agree, is where the opportunity sits: a generation that grew up on PUBG and Fortnite, now able to tell their parents that all those hours can become a profession, and to plug into a decade that Muzamil thinks will change how people live far more than the last one did.

Full transcript
Muzamil

सलाह वाला कपिलों ना ज़रात. Welcome back to another episode of thought behind things. आज महाई संभाजूद है एक बहुत ही ख़ास मेहमान जिनको बुलाने का मकसद यह था कि एक तो यह बहुत एक interesting industry में काम कर रहे हैं. एक ऐसी industry जो कि मैंने पिछली दो तीन episodes में remote base वाली खासकर, Binance वाली खासकर, इसके ऊपर मैंने multiple times यह चीज़ बोली थी कि now the time is such कि I am genuinely very interested in web three point o in the future of internet as it's evolving and all of the interesting things that are about to come तो I wanted to have that understanding more importantly you know I will be going to Dubai soon and वहां पर जाकर मैंने conversations जो करनी है Dubai is emerging as a center of sort of the future of internet web three point o metaverse there's a lot of phenomenal work happening there. और मैंने सोचा वहां जाकर बेवकूफ होंगी इतना बात करने से बेहतर है कि मैं थोड़ा सा एक intro to web three point o ले लूं यहां पर with an expert. आज हमारे साथ मौजूद है तलाह बिन अफ़ज़ल हुए थी CEO of Algorite which is अगर आप खुद ही बता दें कि what does Algorite do first of all thank you so much in Bharatu show thank you, असामिल,

Guest

thank you for having me Algorite is brainchild of two of us, me and my co founder and we wanted to have a Web3 services space company in Pakistan where we develop and we provide services or become technology partners for the web three startups across the world. और services में हम क्यों काम करना चाहते थे because I think एक वह एक लंबी debate है लेकिन this is what we are defining it as. We we develop we partner with the as many technology partnerships develop the technology stack primarily on two technologies which is Unity and Unreal और उनके resources के ऊपर भी मज़ीद बात करेंगे. So this is what it is interesting

Muzamil

मुझे थोड़ा सा बताएं before we sort of jump into this conversation how did you evolve into this space because it's very new, it's very fresh आजकल तो आप किसी को समझाने भी जाते हैं तो सर घूम जाते अपना भी घूम जाते दूसरे का भी घूम जाते हैं and so and in lot of ways like you got into the services side of things right? जो overall Web3.5 हो गए जो flashy areas थे NFTs and cryptocurrencies and all those things उनका एक boom bust cycle आया था जो कि already हम उससे गुज़र चुके हैं. जो मेरी timeline मुझे आपको पता है आप उस bust के बाद शुरू हुए हैं effectively. Yeah. Right? And so there is not a lot of work here. अभी तो बहुत एक sort of novelty tip of the iceberg वाला work हो रहा है. So this wasn't necessarily a short term lucrative play. How did you evolve into it? If you could just share some background on your early life education and experiences.

Guest

So I think early life being a PAF brat, lived in a lot of places in Pakistan, studied at a lot of places and वह एक आप over time different जगहों पर जाकर आप different cultures से भी Pakistan में इतने सारे cultures हैं उनसे मिलते हैं and you learn a lot and then there was this quick cultural shock for me back in twenty, two thousand nine when I moved to Italy with my family. So, I lived there for two years and I did my international baccalaureate at British International School. तो वह जो एक cultural exposure था with so many nationalities that taught me a lot. Right. And coming from there that huge and change of perspective and when I came back there was another cultural shock. Right. That gave me a perspective कि how can I differentiate between Pakistan's culture which is slightly regressive than progressive than the rest of the world and मुझे actual सुनने में भी अक्सर यही आता था and I think came back and started my university at here at Center for Advanced Studies and Engineering और वह अपना

Muzamil

CS का batch वाला start कर रहे थे? Right. अच्छा यहां पर अगर मैं pause करूं आपको पहले से मुझे यह बताएं कि you my understanding is you study from PF schools or right? So वहां से suddenly you are going to Italy. Italy में कौन से शहर में थे? Rome में. Right. वहां पर जाकर IB programming तो you know programming. Did you do your metric here? I did

Guest

my first year of first year. Like first year किया और वहां पर जाकर फिर मैंने दुबारा से भी लगाया. तो वह तो formatting ही different है भाई. Curriculum की style of

Muzamil

examination वगैरह वगैरह. So what was that like?

Guest

Very I think it came as a shock और सबसे ज़्यादा मेरे ख्याल से मैं बाकी चुके sciences तो हम यहां पढ़ते रहते हैं and I and when I chose three subjects as higher standards जो कि Math, Physics, Chemistry थे and everybody used to be amazed कि यार wow, hardcore science subjects why are you doing this? And I knew that I had to do that क्योंकि वापस आकर university का जब वह equivalent certificate बनता है ना तो वह उन चार पांच subjects पर बनता है. I had to do it and then जो मैंने standard level लिए थे वह Italian थे, English literature था और business administration था. I was excelling at the business administration somehow. I was very bad at Italian abonitio. Of course. And जो सबसे turning point था वह था English literature का. अच्छा. I was very bad at it at the beginning although कि हम यहां पर पाकिस्तानी schools में अंग्रेज़ी पढ़ तो लेते हैं, class में खड़े होकर reading कर लेते हैं लेकिन आपस में बोल ही नहीं जाती. हां. सही और तब तक वह तौर भी था कि हम लोग internet पर भी अगर बात करते थे तो Facebook अभी तो जल्द, अभी करीब करीब Pakistan में आया था. Orchard से हम निकले हुए थे और MSNBC पर भी वही Roman उर्दू में बात हुआ करती थी. Right. और Orchard पर भी. तो जब वह पहला साल गुज़रा तो it was a nightmare for me. मैं चलो sciences तो manage कर लूंगा, same formula, same everything but the English literature was very difficult for me and I even spoke to my teacher कि क्या मैं उसको उर्दू literature कर लूं. हां. उस दिन उन्होंने कहा कि यार आप आप कर लें लेकिन आपको यहां पर पढ़ाने वाला कोई नहीं होगा so you will have to study on your own and you will have to do prepare yourself every everything on your own. I spoke to my father and he said कि let's do it. ज़्यादा ज़्यादा क्या होगा? You will get lesser marks but let's do it. And then over the पहला साल बड़ी मुश्किल से गुज़रा. I couldn't do these similes and the symbolism and the metaphors and everything वह पहली दवा समझ रहे थे, देख रहे थे and that during that summer I started watching lots of movies with the subtitles. Right. तो वह मेरी grips अंग्रेज़ी पर आ गई and then I went into model United Nations, got a chance to speak in front of the public

Muzamil

and then that sort of transformed me to understand it better because I think वह सिर्फ language barrier था, understanding का barrier नहीं था. Do you think it's language barriers के अंदर confidence plays a very important role? I feel like कि a lot of times Pakistan है क्योंकि English is a global language. हमारे यहां वह एक weird you know मेरी podcast है बहुत दफा नीचे comment section में लोग आइए कह रहे होते आप अंग्रेज़ी क्यों बोल रहे हैं पाकिस्तानी सारे उर्दू बोलते हैं. It's weird because people want to connect to the world. We talk about exports and we talk about being global citizens but we don't want to speak the global language, right? Then I think it's very very important for the masses to begin to understand भाई मैं यह नहीं कह रहा उर्दू ना बोले. मैं यह भी नहीं कह रहा कि उर्दू को importance ना दे. लेकिन दो languages तो on average हर कोई बोरी लेता है पूरी दुनिया में और उन दो languages में से if you choose English तो it helps you in a lot of different areas professionally. अब उसमें मैंने यह देखा है कि काफी सारे लोग जो है ना वो इस वजह से नहीं सीख पाते क्योंकि जब वो बोलते हैं तो उनको कोई दोस्त खीखी कर रहा होता है. कहीं ना कहीं confidence का वो फुकदान होता है जिसकी वजह से वो होता है. Did you find the same in Italy as well?

Guest

Interestingly European countries जितने भी ज़्यादा हैं अंग्रेज़ी इतनी खास बोलते हैं. नहीं बोलते हैं. मेरे class fellows कुछ English भी हैं, कुछ Swedish हैं, कुछ Polish हैं, Italians हैं थोड़े से और different nationalities, Indians भी हैं and जितनी बुरी भी अंग्रेज़ी बोलने, they would say हां ठीक है सही बोल रहा है. हां. क्योंकि समझ आ रही है और वह nobody was like कि why you saying उसके साथ past tense और यह ऐसे use होता है और past participle use होता है. Nobody cares about that. So, as a European nation or at least in a European country they were not actually thinking कि English हां हां हां. They would just take it as a language whether you speak it right or not. Right. I think हमें भी शायद यही एक angle यह है कि ना हम उर्दू सही से सीख पाते हैं, ना बोल पाते हैं, ना अंग्रेज़ी सीख से बोल पाते हैं although कि दोनों सिर्फ ज़ुबाने हैं. हां. एक एक एक communication medium है और communication का एक channel है और हमारी अंग्रेज़ी से हमें I think दुनिया भर में business बहुत अच्छा मिल जाता है. Right. जब भी आप या at least मेरे experience में जब भी मैं बाहर गया हूं या Turkey में गया हूं, Although कि अगर 5% of the population of the entire world speaks English लेकिन वह 5% आपको at least different जगहों पर जाकर एक अच्छा exposure दे देती. उर्जू आना बहुत लाज़मी है. मैं उसके भी बहुत हक में हूं कि हमारे मज़ीदूर dramaएं और वैसे आनी चाहिए लेकिन अंग्रेज़ी हमारी चूंकि अब एक professional और एक official language वन चुकी है तो बेशक आप टूटी फूटी भी बोल रहे हैं. बोल लें, सीख लें इतनी कि अगले को समझ आ जाए and that's it. और खास तौर पर जो लोग एक दूसरे का मज़ाक उड़ाते हैं. मैं कहता हूं दूसरे को encourage कर लें अगर आपको बेहतर आती है ताकि वह उसका self, self esteem वाला issue ना हो बाकी ठीक है, बाकी ठीक है क्योंकि it's just a language. That's it. 100%, 100% yes. Beyond education, how was Italy? Was that your first trip abroad or had you travelled before as well? No, that was my first trip abroad and although के Italian culture कुछ समझ में नहीं आ रहा था, अंग्रेज़ी नहीं आती, कहीं पर जाकर आप बात नहीं कर सकते, तब हमारे पास phone भी वह नहीं था कि आप Google translate करके घूमते रहें कि अच्छा यह और वह और तो सीखने में थोड़ा time लगा और जब कुछ सीख ली तो वापस आने का वक्त आ गया. लेकिन it was a really good experience of learning in terms of understanding the perspective from so many different nationalities और हमारी lunch break में बहस बैठ के यह हो रही होती थी. There was a Jew guy who was from UK and there was a guy both from in fact from UK और Palestinian Israeli conflict पर debate हो रही है and nobody have none of them have been there but यहां पर बैठकर यह बात हो रही है and. और कोई किसी को मार नहीं रखा मतलब Exactly. हां. They were like कि नहीं देखो ऐसे नहीं होता, देखो वैसे नहीं होता, उस media ने यह कहा है तुम उसकी भी बात सुने हो and there was such a healthy discussion. Right. And that led me to moral United Nations. So, I went to moral United Nations का एक सबसे पहले Milan में गया, फिर उसके बाद Paris में एक दफा गया. In fact दो दफा Paris में गया and that was happening at the UN I think it was the UNDP or UNHRC building in the Paris. Altogether whole different experience जहां पर actual debates होती हैं या UR में या sessions होते हैं. So, being there I think यह एक it's a it's a opportunity it was a privilege by god कि जाओ, सीखो और वापस आओ और कुछ करो. Then came back, started doing my university. Why did I not do? It's been asked quite a lot of times कि जी वहीं क्यों नहीं पढ़ लिया या कहीं और क्यों नहीं चले गए सीखने के लिए. एक बड़ी interesting story यह है कि मैंने मैं गिल के लिए apply किया,

Muzamil

तो यह आसमानी था कुछ case आ गई. अच्छा but coming back to Pakistan you know going to case you know it's it's a new program they've just started you don't know how well it's going to be and Having the experience of, let's say, the model United Nations and global experience, one would assume you'd probably offer, let's say, IBA or Lums or at the very least sort of GI key. What was the thought process behind doing computer science and also from a fairly new university?

Guest

To be very honest I did not dwell so much into choosing that university by the time because I got free from there the admission dates had gone. Right. So, जो भी बस मिल रहा था वह. Exactly. Also, I opted for the electrical engineering. Right. At the केश university but हुआ क्या? हम आप जाते हैं एक provisional certificate लेते हैं और मेरा actually यही plan था कि यहां lumps में जाना है या उसके बाद नश्च में जाना है. करनी electrical engineering है. जब एक किवलेस certificate बना और उन्होंने कहा कि I did not get the best marks in the IB but उन्होंने उन्होंने कहा जी आपके around 50% वन रहे हैं तो आप ऐसा करें ना देख लें कहां पर जाते हैं. Case में although कि मेरा electrical engineering हो चुका था, admission हो चुका था and it was clear and when I took it to them and they said कि अब आपकी equivalency 50%, 60% below है तो हम तुक कर नहीं सकते. I am like why not choose computer science. It's the

Muzamil

next best thing at least at that time known जो कि दो हज़ार दस और रुजाव के जी सबने electrical engineer बनना है. ठीक है? Although के fast जो लोग ज़्यादातर faster concepts की तरफ देख रहे थे they were focusing on the computer science mostly. नहीं even सच्ची बात है मैं fast कहूं मेरे साथ के बहुत सारे लड़के ऐसे थे जो कि हमने electrical में apply किया था नहीं हुआ तो हम CS में आ गए. वह उस time पर stray यह वाला element था अब तो बहुत popularize हो गया कि computer science करना है. हां. Exactly.

Guest

तो computer science में वह जाकर dean से बात की head of department से उन्होंने कहा अच्छा यार ठीक है मैं तुम्हारी equivalence बनाता हूं इतने इतने percent मांग कहता है ठीक है I'll let you be in even though you are like a fairly just borderline above 50%. बाद में जब किवलेस वन के आई that was 68% and I could get into the electrical engineering. चलो अल्लाह से वही वाली बात है किस्मत किस्मत की बात है मेरे को electrical वाले तो बेचारे बड़े रोए हैं उसको. Exactly exactly तो मैं यह कह रहा हूं कि कभी कभार ना दुआ करने अच्छी बात होती है, खुश होना चाहिए जब कुछ चीज़ ज़िंदगी में ना मिले. हां. It's actually for the better Sometimes God is protecting you from your own mistakes. Exactly and we we very careful you wish for. Yeah, 100%. So, got in there. It was a, it was a first program and we got to know early on कि जो बहुत अच्छे teachers हैं जो कि बाहर से PhDs या masters करके आ रहे हैं वह हमें मिल रहे हैं. Why? Because the new program and they will cherry hand picking every teacher जो जिसने कहीं Lawn से और Caltech से और यहां से PhDs और वह किए हुए और उनको आप लेकर आ रहे हैं. अब Georgia Tech से Doctor शोएब भी पढ़े हुए थे. उन्होंने कहा जी सबसे पहले तो वहां से देखें ना जितनी faculty आ सकती है. So, we were getting the best of the teachers. First batch का experiment था सब अच्छा करना चाह रहे थे. हमें अच्छे teachers मिले, काफी कुछ सीखने को मिला. The first आपने ज़िंदगी में पहला कोई program नहीं लिखा होता C plus plus में, Hello World में. It also came like कि यार अच्छा ठीक है, यह भी होना होता है, ठीक है, यह ऐसे हो जाता है. But एक fairly एक idea तो था कि यह programming ऐसे होती है but you haven't done it in your you know regularly. So, really good experience learning from there but there was it was not the case was not like a university fancy university like others. जैसे आपको concept या नश में मिलेगी the whole environment and the campus and everything in the cafeteria. The case at that time was under under the basement of the Sir सैयद memorial museum.

Muzamil

अच्छा. Yeah. यह जो अपना.

Guest

Serena F5 के पास है. Yeah. So, it didn't look like a university. It look like a community college sort of thing जो कि Pakistan में बोल अगर रहे

Muzamil

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Guest

समझ में आ गया ठीक है मतलब जो भी है गुर्सी भी शायद वही है लेकिन हां AC अच्छा नहीं लगा हुआ तो चलो खैर है. हां. तो good teachers, really good learning and then from there exposure जहां क्योंकि fact आपके alumni भी नहीं है. You are the first one then going into the market and connecting with the different लेकिन I think जो Doctor श्वेब के contacts थे उसने हमें कहीं ना कहीं help किया at least in the इस्लामाबाद market. Right. Because people knew कि अच्छा case जो है ना वह brainchild है and Doctor श्वेब का है and he has been running it from 2006. Right. तो electrical वाले तो हमारे पास काफी आ चुके हैं. We know this. It's good. So, लोग CS वालों को भी try कर लेते हैं. Right. So, did my internship at Ovix Technologies. Did one in Karachi while my family had gone back, come back from, from, from Italy and my father again got posted in कराची तो वहां पर मैंने Android पर थोड़ी सी internship किया and then I got to know कि ok things are going fine. Right. At 1.1 of the people once said there वहां पर JavaScript हम लोगों ने सीखी और हम लोगों को इतनी utility समझ में नहीं आई. One fine day just a senior developer, Android developer said कि यार जो future है ना वह JavaScript का है And हम लोग उसकी तरफ देख रहे हैं JavaScript का कैसे future हो सकता है ना? And now we have this mean and learn stacks and then everything revolving around JavaScript. Now वह यह गुर्तिन होगी अच्छा ठीक है उनकी जो पेश गोई थी वह बिल्कुल ठीक थी. Right. तो interesting experience है and then after that after graduating right the day it was our last day जो FIP किया हमारा defense होता है. I had an interview at DPL जो कि इस्लामाबाद में एक अच्छी जानी मानी services company है and I got hired as a software engineer and started my journey from there. So, engineering मैंने कुछ छह महीने जो although क्या I was not bad at programming, I graduated with a decent CGPA 3.42 something जो कि सही था मेरे ख्याल से लेकिन bad की programming नहीं होती थी. I was more of a peoples person. I was more into management and they and सय्यद MR जो कि मेरे एक former boss और इस podcast पर सबसे पहले आ भी चुके हैं. यह कह रहा क्या मैं पाशा का chairman वन रहा हूं which is Pakistan Software Houses Association. Why don't you join me here? Do you want me to join here? It's more of a managerial sort of work like why not? ज़्यादा exposure होगा, C level लोगों के साथ काम करने का मौका मिलेगा, learning होगी बहुत सारी और यह वो. I jumped into it and spent like six years at भाषा doing so many things membership से लेकर, smaller event से लेकर, बड़े पाशा ICD awards तक then Pakistan की IT industry Asia Pacific level पर represent होती है. उसे Apikta awards कहा जाता है. वहां से लेकर इन सारी चीज़ों में I have been there and also the regulatory और the policy level discussions. Pakistan को ITA में क्यों क्यों sign करना चाहिए जो कि हम लोगों ने पंद्रह पंद्रह साल पहले कर लिया हुआ है और अभी भी हम वही discussion में पता है. ITA क्या है? It's A treaty of sorts. A treaty of sorts where you get you don't have custom duties on the thing on the things to import ताकि IT की accession बेहतर हो सके markets में. Right. और हमारा वह dollar over versus issue चलता रहता है इस वजह से. So, all those policy discussions जहां पर FBR की समझ आना शुरू हुई कि taxes किस तरह से impose और किस तरह से manage किए जा सकते हैं. दो हज़ार सोलह में did a huge campaign with सईद अहमद as the chairman कि हम लोगों को अच्छा IT की exports के ऊपर 1% sorry जो zero rated taxation थी वह खत्म हो रही थी दो हज़ार उन्नीस में. So, we had to prepare. दो हज़ार सोलह में in fact खत्म हो रही थी. We did that huge campaign and got it extended till 2019 and then 2019 में फिर उसको दो हज़ार पच्चीस तक लेकर गए. वह सारी जो journey थी कि campaign कैसी की जाती है, लोगों को, CEOs को इकट्ठा करना although कि हमारे IT के सारे CEOs they wanted to stay away कि government से पाला ना आई पड़े तो अच्छा है. But broaden bringing in the community of all the C level people that was the really fundamental task at my end and then उसके बाद different policies के बाद हम लोगों ने जब community building करने के लिए मज़ीद events, मज़ीद conversations around let's say Pakistan में पैसे आए, आदे कैसे जाते हैं, sales कैसी करनी चाहिए, training जो कि अभी I think हमें बाद में इस पर भी बात करनी चाहिए कि Pakistan में जो skill set है और जो universities की yield है वह इतनी ख्लास आ नहीं रही तो उसको export quality कैसे बनाया जा सकता है? Right. तो यह सारी चीज़ों में I was been there at for six years played a huge role I think and at some point in 2020 when another former boss which was also in the podcast earlier he retired from the post of AIA Secretary General. So, I was the acting secretary journal for the almost one and a half year. अच्छा. That was the peak COVID time. Right. और उस दौरान जब COVID आ चुका और Pakistan की IT industry somehow the other with due to the good policies of the government at that time, we were flourishing and e commerce हमारी boom कर रही है. IT services और हम लोग enable, IT enabled services को हम boom पर जा रहे हैं. Philippines में offices बंद हो रहे हैं तो they are looking for call centers in Pakistan because we were having a smart lockdown और बाकी दुनिया में layoffs हो रहे हैं. हमारी companies कर रही we are looking for 400 people to hire. Ok, तो really good times, very different times but I think Pakistan को सबसे ज़्यादा फ़ायदा COVID का हुआ है in terms of its jump in digital space either with the adoption or with the with whatever we are creating. Right.

Muzamil

Six years into पाशा and you had very clearly been in a sort of management association industry space, right? वहां पर आपने holistically industry को भी समझ लिया, आपने यह भी देख लिया कि sir जी talent का क्या issue है, all the nodes of the industry. Why did you decide to leave and pursue I mean अगर मैं career wise देखूं sure वहां पर glassy link थी मतलब आप एक acting secretary general बनी है उसके बाद आप क्या ही कर सकते हैं? But you could have utilized that to let's say work in other industries. You know आपकी policy की बहुत सारी jobs होती हैं market के अंदर. You did not decide to do that. You decided to open your own sort of software house if you call it. What was the thought process there and particularly when you were going about it तो उसमें जब start में बंद आता तो दस चीज़ें होती ना website बनाने से लेकर, app बनाने से लेकर you know I can do so much. How did you decide कि this is what we are going to do?

Guest

So first off मैंने at least यह तो सोचा हुआ था कि at some point in life I have to open up my own business. Entrepreneurial spirit एक थी लेकिन वह उसको मैंने कभी इतना exercise किया नहीं था. I wanted to do it. जब कुछ job offers थी और बहुत ज़्यादा job offers नहीं थी either with the, with the leading company in Pakistan जो कि पहले शायद oil and gas में थे और उसके लिए technology develop करते थे और it could be another company जो कि co working spaces में काम करते हैं and everything.

Muzamil

LMKR, LMKT और दूसरी कौन सी होगी?

Guest

Co working spaces में दफ्तर खाम भी इधर. तो वह सारे job options होने के बावजूद मैंने यह सोचा कि if I will not started right now although कि मुझे एक वह exposure मिल चुका है और मैं services का काम I think fairly इतना जानता हूं DPL में बैठकर कि मैं एक decent काम चला सकता हूं. Although कि sales काम नहीं किया हुआ, sales का exposure शायद LMKR में मिल जाता जाकर. लेकिन people management and seeing the HR, how the HR is managed there and different companies जब उनसे भी उनकी बातें सुना करते थे कि how the CEOs of different companies are managing it. Let's jump into that and let's learn do the experiential learning while we do it. Why Web3? Web3 is is was when I started looking around and studying कि एक तुम्हे like personal interest था कि we wanted to do something in a I am a visual person personally. So मुझे वह graphical, visual, CGI इस तरह की चीज़ें बहुत fascinate करती थी and if we are in this space और जो कि web three ज़्यादा immersive और ज़्यादा interactive space है तो can we do something in this area? Why not from Pakistan? मतलब Pakistan में अभी तक वही क्यों games वन रही हैं जो कि सिर्फ Play Store पर चलती हैं और वह या usually किसी का reskin clone version होती हैं और and now we are sort of graduating from that point of reverse engineering to creating some new things जो कि अब अच्छा content आने शुरू हो गया. यह मैं सिर्फ games की बात कर रहा हूं, animations की बात नहीं कर रहा क्योंकि Pakistan में animations का काम बड़ा अच्छा से decent काफी इर्दारिक कर रहे हैं, काफी organizations कर रहे हैं. So, when into the read did a lot of R and D about this कि should I be on the web three side? Started from games because games is like the starting point of games. Gamers are always the first adopters everywhere in the world and then you can jump into a lot of other things जो कि web three में ज़्यादा interactive and immersive experiences दे सकते हैं. And that's when we decided we wanted to stick on this side because it's fascinating, it's interesting, it's sort of drives us in a way that we can create lots of things in Pakistan. Do the while doing that outsourcing जो कि बहुत सारे बड़े

Muzamil

studios across the world करना चाहते हैं, करना चाहते हैं. Right, मैं conversation को थोड़ा सा switch करता हूँ and I wanna have an understanding. अगर आप मुझे explain कर सकें कि web one, two and three like what's the difference? For a lot of people they are very confused in terms of you are into the gaming space you could have called yourself a gaming company. Right? Some people say जी सारा जी बस word ही है. अब वो आजकल जिस time हम ChatGPT आया है तो एक अजीब अजाब लग मच गया Twitter के ऊपर कि ChatGPT has killed this industry and now this has happened. Things don't happen that way. Exactly. They take time and इसकी evolution होती है. But yes, core technology is interesting in terms of AI. Similarly, if you were to really give me the boring stuff, right? Beyond the world of NFTs and money doubling every month what really is the underlying concept behind the evolution? Web 1.0 था वह क्या था? Web 2.0 which I am assuming is now exist today and Web3.0 which we get, which is the reason why?

Guest

So, if you remember that our early 2000s websites were very plain, boring where किसी ने कुछ text लिखा हुआ है और उसके अंदर graphical भी कम होता था और videos भी कम होते थे. That was web one point o. People could write something. It was actually written by very known either media houses or companies, bigger firms or may be financial institutions and everything or the countries because they had those. That was web one point o जिसमें आप actually खुद कुछ नहीं कर सकते as a user you could just read. That's one point o. Right. So,

Muzamil

it's not two way. It's one way. It's essentially one way. The

Guest

web two point o was where I, where they could also do this and you could also do this. The same way YouTube अच्छा वह अब कुछ इदारों ने कुछ platforms बना दिए और सब वही इस्तेमाल कर रहे हैं Facebook, YouTube. Wikipedia, Google. Exactly. Right. Now you are also the, you are, there is an option for user generated content and that is web web two point o. Right. But you do not, you either own some part of it or may be none of it. जैसे अगर Facebook की कुछ guidelines भी चले गए थे जो आपने content post कर दिया है वह हमारा है किसी भी form में. अब आपकी उसकी ownership यह है कि वह आपके account से हुआ है. अब आप delete भी गिर देंगे तो लेकिन data में तो है. अब इसी तरह everything goes on the YouTube or the Spotify because अब आपकी उसकी ownership जो है वह कुछ limited है. Now you could read and write into the platform in terms of any graphical or written text but now you you you still don't own it. Right. And now the web three is like read, write and plus the ownership of it. Right. And now the ownership is like कि एक decentralized network है जो कि centralized मतलब Facebook के servers नहीं है या Google या YouTube के servers नहीं है. Now it's a community backed peer to peer distributed system जो कि blockchain पर बना हुआ है. अब आपके पास इसकी ownership का कुछ maximum percentage है. कहीं जगह पर आपको शायद royalties देनी पड़ेंगे, कुछ करना पड़ेगा लेकिन आपका maximum जो है अब इसीलिए जो non fungible tokens या NFTs की जो एक buzz आया था वह यह था कि आप digital assets पहले भी होते थे, graphical images, videos पहले भी होते थे लेकिन आपकी उसकी ownership का issue था. अब आपके पास उसकी ownership ज़्यादा है और अब अगर वह trading भी हो रही है उसकी तो you still have, you could possibly have the royalties over it and that's why everybody was like and when celebrities start throwing money at something and everybody तो वह एक एक चीज़ high वन जाती है उसकी और हर बंदा उसकी तरफ पैसे लगाना शुरू कर देता. Right. तो web three में जब यह चीज़ें आईं कि जी cryptocurrencies भी हैं, आपके NFTs भी हैं and you can double the money तो सब सबको शौक होता है कि जी पैसे डालें और कल अगले दिन मुझे double मिल जाएं, why not? हां. तो वह तो वह Ponzi schemes की तरह वह चीज़ चलती ही रहती है लेकिन अब चूंकि वह ज़रा settle हो रहा है एक एक global level पर आपकी crypto currencies level down होकर अपनी actual value पर आकर set होना ज़रूरी है कि हम यह communities back, community backed crypto currencies जो हैं value क्या देंगी in the end? या उन NFTs की value क्या होगी at the end और अभी तक जो web three या metaverse जिस पर हम बात अभी कर सकते हैं it's about all about ownership. Right. Yeah, जो अगर

Muzamil

हम बात होते metaverse पर तो हम आते हैं. I think metaverse now is beginning to come into the more sort of user facing side of it before that, we have said that web two point zero I would resume web two point zero maybe started late ninety's MySpace and these traps were used and then they popularized over early two thousand's when the of orchids and Facebooks and of these came in so in terms of web three point o really what's happening there we haven't really heard of मतलब मुझे novelty products का भी नहीं पता जो पता लगा वह पता लगा कि मुझे use cases का पता लग गया. Right? So so NFT is a use case. Anyone come going in and saying कि you know the monkey picture is what NFT is. No, it's a the monkey picture is a symptom of it. But actually NFT is a use case we don't know it will pan out it will be an evolution but yes the utility is very clear when the world in its entirety would be locked out around NFTs then एक item अगर मैंने बनाया है और उसकी ownership intact है तो it will be fairly difficult to just right click save as and then upload it again. Right? Because platforms will begin to say कि listen, you can't upload anything unless there is like a trackable ownership token attached to it. And if you are using someone else's token, they will directly link it. If you have payment, they will pay royalty and they will pay scope. So, it is direct utility. In terms of apps are there any use cases or sorry are there any products that have begun to emerge that सारे hypothesis की तरफ is काम कर रहे हैं. And we are talking about the web three space, right? Web three space. So, again, मैं एक छोटी सी मैं सारी तरह से दूंगा कि recently when threads came in, तो the founder, the head of threads he had put up a thread and he said कि जी हमने इसको अब ऐसा बनाया है कि आपका जो follower वो है वो effectively आपकी मलकियत है और अगर आप चाहेंगे अभी हमने इसको structure देना है but eventually आप अगर उठा के इसको mastodon पर लेकर जाना चाहते हैं तो you can do that and then I googled mastodon and I found out कि sir that's a decentralized social network primarily running around the same premise but उस तरह की examples what are some of those?

Guest

Right, so I think over time जब लोगों ने जो कि first exposure और से उनका cryptocurrencies और NFT से हो गया उनके बाद अभी इस तरह की commodity या actual ownership versus वह DApps और Defi create होना शुरू हो रहे हैं and हो रहे हैं. So decentralized apps में से एक example यह है जो आपके पास है and on the top of my head the essence of those decentralized apps is that if you are bringing something in terms of value or anything or viewership or ownership, you're going to own it. And then that will be backed by your own either your own token or the token that you are that you are building it on. Could be Ethereum, could be something else. अब आपने एक cryptocurrency या एक blockchain के ऊपर एक decentralized app बना लिए, let's say new YouTube बना लिया. अब उसके ऊपर TBT podcast चलती है. Right. सारे followers YouTube से उठकर वहां आ जाते हैं और वहीं पर देखते हैं and now let's say you are charging just one, let's say one unit of TBT to view that and that's how you are earning money to make it sustainable as well which is let's say convertible into US dollars at certain convert. So that for example, that TBT and decentralized app could have more value if more people are viewing it and they want to have ownership in it as well later on. I And am just thinking out loud in a way that this is possible now. Right. And if I am doing this podcast, I can ask मुज़मिल, I want to have a certain fair share in this podcast cast value जितने लोग देखेंगे and if you are charging one TBT ताकि everybody is winning here. Right. Right?

Muzamil

How does the, सो सो यह तो मुझे समझ आ गई कि आपने उसको distribute कर दिया. Obviously when you, let's talk about YouTube right? YouTube की money, एक होता money in money out. So the money in part is what generally everybody focuses on कि यार if I am sitting on YouTube and I am putting up my content there पहला तो यह है कि जो advertising revenue है वह 50% YouTube is going to take directly and so they are the absolute winner there दूसरा YouTube, I am at the whim of YouTube where they decide कि यार मुझे home page पर लाकर डालना या नहीं डालना. मेरे consumer को मेरी notification आएगी नहीं आएगी. More importantly जो आजकल बहुत ज़्यादा शोर मचना शुरू हो गया जिसमें politics जो आ गई है ना कि left और right की politics तो उस पर जो fringe elements है वो ban होना शुरू हो गए and that's why people were like okay so again I am not disagreeing or disagreeing with one but all I am saying is at some point platforms became into controlling कि क्या सही है क्या गलत है. Right. Right. Nation states को तो चलो आप फिर भी कह लेते हो कि यार ठीक है मैं उसको वो दे रहा हूँ अपना vote देता हूँ मेरी state है but इसकी बहुत अच्छी मिसाल है Twitter की. Recently someone was in Hunza and they tried to access twitter and so they went to the government of Pakistan का twitter handle और उसके ऊपर लिखा हुआ आया कि जी government of India has banned this handle on twitter so आप इसको access नहीं कर सकते चाहे वह Pakistan में पाकिस्तानी internet के ऊपर वह Twitter इस्तेमाल करके यह कर रहे हैं but because Twitter ने अपनी geographical boundary के अंदर वह वाला पूरा का पूरा contentious part India के उसमें डाला हुआ है तो वहां पर वो है. It's a very simple वो कि when you and I don't know what the politics behind that is but that's messed up. Right? And so you realize कि अच्छा this the only reason why this happened was because the Indian state could control you know a particular company and so on and so forth और Indian state मशहूर भी आया कि जब pre यह जो acquisition है Elon Musk की उससे पहले Twitter के ऊपर बड़ा show उन्होंने you know threaten किया यह क्या वह क्या and they have been controlling the narrative over there as well. With decentralization in a lot of ways you can begin to really promote the fundamentals of freedom of speech and वह सारा that we actually grew up dreaming, to be very honest. That was the internet that we knew and imagined. It is only recently that it's become this politically correct weird space where पता नहीं क्या चलता है. वहां तक तो मैं यह समझ लेता हूं. But उसके alternate के ऊपर there is an incredibly huge cost associated with the processing that is required to run something like YouTube or Twitter जो कि हमने recently देखा कि जी Elon Musk ने बंदे fire किए तो Twitter के मसले आए. Right? Right. So, how does the technical part gets handled here in terms of who bears the cost where do these servers exist who bears the cost of processing you know how do you how do you engineer the the product in itself is it more like a community driven updates to the open platform like let's say Wikipedia or I can't think of example but I know for a fact there have been open source web two point o products as well where communities have come together and create. Win आ रहा नहीं है. Like GitHub. Exactly.

Guest

Different projects are out. They will upgrade

Muzamil

and decide and and But it's the community. There is nobody really. It's the majority that is deciding that the platform will come Right? So, how does that work in these decentralized apps?

Guest

So, I think उसका पहले एक underlying factor यह है कि यह सारी blockchain based है और blockchain जो बनती है वह decentralized, distributed systems पर चलती है और वह peer to peer transactions हैं जो कि peer to peer network है in fact और वह networks जो हैं अब anybody can dedicate a server for that community. It can be a virtual or it can be at your own place आपने दस, बीस, पच्चीस servers लगा दिए हैं जो कि बहुत अच्छे high-tech हैं और अब उसकी cost आप बेर भी कर रहे हैं और उस community में से आपको उसका share भी मिल रहा है because you are giving that value to the community in terms of its ETH 1 or Bitcoin one on on a certain period over the certain period of time. That's how you are earning that value from the community. So, वह जो distributed system है वह जो लोग उस community का member बनते हैं उसके लिए they provide those services in terms of its computing and everything और इसके ऊपर यही actually एक angle इतना overtime रहा है कि वह जो जितनी भी computing cost है और वह electricity है और वह सब कुछ है उसका climate पर क्या effect है? उसको manage कैसे करेंगे? Cost of electricity is going up? How you gonna manage that? जिसकी वजह से solar energy में या clean energy वाले जो factors थे उसमें बहुत ज़्यादा, बहुत ज़्यादा innovation हुई कि हम उसको ज़्यादा से ज़्यादा बेहतर करें. Solar energy की जो inverters हैं और उनके जो panels हैं और उसके अंदर materials ऐसे use किए जाएं कि ज़्यादा production हो. तो एक चीज़ यह उसको fuel कर रही थी. अब वह जो सारी distributed network है जिसके ऊपर blockchain की हर वह transaction या वह सारी चीज़ें जिसके ऊपर मज़ीद अब वह another application layer वन रही है. This was the the underlying technology अब उसके ऊपर application और business layers वन रही हैं जो कि पिछले web two पर भी चल रही थी. अब उनको उसी की basis पर उतनी अब उसकी जो जितनी utility है, जितने users होते जाएंगे, उसकी value, उस community की भी value उतनी increase होती जाएगी. It's exactly like कि how many countries are trading in dollars. That's why उसकी dollar की value उतनी ज़्यादा है. अब जब China ने decide करना है कि जी हमने Yuan में करनी है तो, Yuan में जब करेंगे तो उसकी value फिर उस तरह से set होना शुरू हो जाएगी.

Muzamil

Same goes with the Ethereum, same goes with the Bitcoin, Solana and so on and so forth. Right, but I am trying to understand again. YouTube की एक video है, TBT की एक video है वह कहीं पर host हो रही है. उसको पचास हज़ार लोग देख रहे हैं तो वह it has to have a cloud computing hardware setup. Exactly. Where it is and a processing setup to go with it where it can quickly take up that video, parse it, throw it to fifty-fifty thousand different people simultaneously. वह load management कर सकती है scale up, scale down at a given time depending on requirement and my understanding is that the blockchain element is useful for the contracts. The idea that this video was hosted here and is shown to this person actually belongs to this who used content from this this or this उस सारे को elegantly manage करने के लिए वो blockchain exist करती है. Right. But जो actual web two point होगा आपने कहा जो player है वह किधर host हुई हुई है? समझ में आता है. और जो video है उसकी technology जो है कि कि वह host किधर होगी वह अगर for example मैंने मैं एक third party हूं मैंने एक PC लगा दिया मैंने उसके ऊपर कहा कि जी मेरे पर आकर host कर लें तो मेरे जैसे पचास और होंगे ताकि एक redundancy भी हो system के अंदर एक वक्त में जब उठ रही है तो वो कहीं क्या वो सारा का सारा distributed है? And is it is distributed systems of this level optimized enough to compete with let's say AWS के massive sort of data farms जो कि you know crazy bandwidths को use करते हैं और वह they are using the cutting edge technology to make sure कि जी the ping is minimum and so on and so forth.

Guest

So, that's going to be a competition because जब तक जितने लोग advocate होंगे decentralized और democratized distributed systems के तो distribution systems तो ऐसे ही काम करेंगे जो कि backed by community हैं कि आपकी video actually सिर्फ एक जगह पर host नहीं हो रही होगी. उसके chunks और वह जिस तरह से blockchain divide हुई हुई है, वह हर जगह पर host हो रही होगी. Right. लेकिन वह किस तरह अब उस blockchain technology को कितना अच्छा optimize किया जाता है over time और उसके अंदर compression rates और वह सारी compression की technologies कितनी अच्छी इस्तेमाल की जाती हैं और उसको बाद में users तक minimum latency के साथ कैसे पहुंचाया जा सकता है? यह अब उस community का actual role है. Right. कि वह उसके ऊपर काम करेंगे और उसको बेहतर बनाएंगे ताकि उसकी जो utility over time है वह बेहतर की जा सके so that if I am playing the same TBT video in Nigeria and I am playing the same video in The US तो वह वहां के जो distributed service, जो distributed network के nodes हैं वह मुझे वहां से वह video देखने को मिले. Right. And then if I am opening that TBT DAP जो कि एक decentralized app है वह मुझे वहां से accessible हो ताकि जिस तरह के web two point O में भी होता है. Right. वह of course वह सारे जो servers हैं वह Google के या YouTube के अपने हैं या AWS के अपने हैं यहां पर इस community के हैं. Right. Now अब वह एक एक और इसमें difference यही है कि वह this is that is not owned by one single organization AWS. Now this is owned by a community और जो कि यह खुद decide करती है कि हम लोगों ने किस तरह की technology को मज़ीद introduce करना है अपनी blockchain के अंदर ताकि हम बेहतर value provide कर सकें और इसके ऊपर मज़ीद applications जो कि अब वन सकती हैं वह बने.

Muzamil

Right, so my understanding is correct me if I am wrong. My understanding is what's happening is a lot of times when we are looking at these decentralized apps where what we are trying to what we are thinking is that the consumer front of it is more democratized. So हम यह कहते कि यार TBT को अपने data पर ownership होगी, TBT के viewer को अपने data पर ownership होगी वगैरह वगैरह. What my understanding now is that it's not just that. In lot of ways what we're doing is we're democratizing business as well. What do I mean by that? First of all के जो companies है historically what we have seen है SKG कोई एक बंदा है वह आके एक बहुत genius है उसने जाके एक बहुत genius product बना दी और फिर वह scale करता है फिर उसमें एक proper methodology है of how वो एक individual कितनी power रखता है, greeting power है, board है, board जो है वो decide करता है and in lot of ways जब हम wider conversation में जाते हैं जो हमारी दुनिया में हो रही है of climate change, of you know even something as bad as money laundering and banks यह करते हैं और यह organisation ऐसे करती है वगैरह वगैरह. So you are effectively democratizing that decision making as well. Exactly. कि enough people as part of that community will decide the future of how this will go. अगर वह product जो है वह बहुत ज़्यादा damaging है और वह community को लगता है कि यह बहुत damaging होना शुरू हो गई है तो community उसको change कर लेगी. Exactly. यह एक इंसान के ऊपर नहीं है कि वह उसको किस तरीके से चला रहा है. दूसरा I think जो इसके अंदर एक major area मुझे नज़र आ रहा वह यह नज़र आ रहा है कि पहले companies होती थी individual जिसको हम Pakistan में आज तक सेठिया company कहते हैं. America उसको एक step आगे लेकर गया और उसने कहा कि जी हम इसमें buy ins डालेंगे. Stock market के through उन्होंने जाकर करना शुरू कर दिया कि you can own a company as well, you can own a company as well. And owning a company का core concept यह था कि तुमने एक बहुत tiny percentage of a company ले लिया उसमें you can either be a you know profit or loss में आप partner वन गए और उसमें again decision makers बड़े थोड़े if you are able to buy enough of it तो आप जाके decision making कर सकते हैं. Exactly. And majority of the minority stakeholders would never be able to क्योंकि कोई भी जाता जाके उनकी annual meeting में fly करके अपना एक छोटा सा vote नहीं देता और hundreds of thousands of people. What you are now doing is, you are democratizing that aspect directly into the system where let's say I want to let's say एक dapp YouTube है और मैं सिर्फ उसमें TBT करना नहीं चाहता TBT में host कर रहा हूं लेकिन मुझे इसकी power पता है importance पता है तो मैं छह servers लेकर मैं connect कर देता हूं उसके साथ. Right. Now those servers will every time there will be content being accessed and whatever तो मुझे उसकी percentage मिल रही है. So effectively the AWS business is also democratizing in a way कि मैं I can get a chunk from that business as well. मैं छोटे छोटे लोग अपने छोटे छोटे businesses बनाकर उसका plug in कर सकते हैं. Exactly. As long as it's a growing company. Is that does that make sense? Yes and it actually you can do that now and that's what that's the beauty of it, right? Because if you are creating this content you have more ways to earn from it because you are putting in all the effort in doing and then the community of TBT itself,

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they would have more say in the things किसको बुलाना है, किसको नहीं बुलाना, क्या बात होनी ज़रूरी है और क्या बात होनी बिल्कुल ज़रूरी नहीं है, नहीं होनी चाहिए and that aspect of, aspect of it और उसके ऊपर एक और चीज़ यह भी कि even though you can also use all those let's say resources from all these bigger companies to contribute to these decentralized systems. So, what I am trying to say here is कि आप दो Azure के servers लें, दो AWS के लें, कुछ Google के लें और उसके ऊपर आप वही setup कर दें for the Ethereum probably. Right. And now you are contributing more to that decentralized system and you have better stake in it and you're being heard more, let's say, the same way you can get a chance

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to be part of a better member of any other community. Right. Because you have more resources allocated for it. Right. तो this is what it is. And the people who are allocating those resources they get paid as well, right? Yes, in terms of that वही bitcoin या ethereum की in terms of that. Yes. Interesting and obviously इसके सारे जो apps है उसके पीछे every time we speak of apps there is an element of finance जो कि we know I think apps के ऊपर इतना discussion नहीं हुआ जितना ज़्यादा Defi is comparatively much more popular. Because of the cryptocurrencies. Because of cryptocurrencies and I think because of the changing world order as well in a way where it's now that the geopolitical discussion है उसमें जब लोग कह रहे कि यार अच्छा dollar hegemony एक exist करती है और you know we have to go away from it. तो उसमें bitcoin now suddenly makes a lot more sense than to say कि अच्छा हम dollar hegemony से हटकर ना हम Chinese hegemony बेच रहे हैं. You know it's like the premise कि oh you know the Americans are evil so we need to go away from them and go to the Chinese. That doesn't make any sense. Know, like you you you can't hop from one to another. The real progression will be कि when you say कि ok let not let's not have one country decide a protocol that will obviously be driven by that country. Exactly. Right? So, the distributor finance in a lot of ways मुझे personally लग रहा है कि उसके उसके अंदर बहुत ज़्यादा massive retraction आएगी आने वाले वक्त के अंदर and I think अभी जो मैं recent changes नज़र आ रही है उसमें मुझे ये भी समझ आ रही है कि now a lot of these people are beginning to understand कि ये किस तरह मामला जा रहा है and so they are now buying whatever stake they can themselves so मैं देख रहा था black black stone है जो financial capital वह है जिन्होंने recently कहा है कि जी हम जो है ना वह cryptocurrency के अंदर US में आने वो पहले बड़ा regulate कर रहे थे तो now even countries are beginning to regulated in such a way that they can get a piece of the pie because eventually this will bypass them. Exactly. It will be bigger than that. अच्छा यह चलेगा यह तो हम प्रयास से sun रहे हैं कि last couple of years this new thing has popped up जिसको obviously Facebook has popularized with the word of metaverse and then उन्होंने उसको अपने आप को meta बोल दिया तो वो automatically it's now everywhere everyone understands cake cheese at metaverse Nobody truly understands it. Right. And I think जो really exciting moment for that was when sort of Vision Pro came out this year. Apple more often than not is always a little late to the market but Apple tries to time itself कि वह critical mass से पहले पहुंचे. So काफी दफा एक product announce होती है वह अभी earlier doctor पर होती है वह वह हो रही होती है and then when Apple comes in तो that's when it's now mass adoption की तरफ जाएगी चीज़, right? So for me when I was looking at the vision pro demo. बड़े अड़से बाद iPhone moment नज़र आया मुझे. I think personally watch में वो नहीं था personally Airpods and you know they are nice novelty and they definitely changed the game but जो truly reimagining of a human experience a large part of human experience was when Vision Pro came in and they announced that And so, उस वक्त मुझे यह बात समझ आना शुरू गई कि अच्छा जी अब तीन से पांच साल की game है और यह बहुत massively it will be everywhere. But still, nobody truly understands what is metaverse. Is metaverse just a VR AR space where that's the future of how user experience will be on the internet or is there a further depth to it and how does the decentralized element come into play because in discussion there is a of generic metaverse space which plugged in so you can theoretically you go into the metaverse and decide that I want to go into the metaverse of Facebook here and then let's say epic के मैं metaverse में स्तरीक जानना चाहता हूँ. So, how does that sort of a community driven the future of internet? Like the way that I understand metaverse now is that that is internet of the future और उसके ऊपर क्या होता है that will be sort of either centralized or decentralized.

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बिल्कुल, so metaverse के बारे में थोड़ा सा बता दूं कि जो 1992 में एक American Sci Fi author थे Neil Stephenson उन्होंने एक term coin की कि एक जो of course novel में कि जो दुनिया के अमीर अमीर लोग होंगे वह एक alternate reality में जाकर three d reality में they will spend some time and do things. ठीक है? And that's how it was coined. फिर उसके बाद दो हज़ार तीन में आपके पास कुछ games आना शुरू हुई. दो हज़ार तीन में there was a game called Second Life. उन्होंने एक ऐसा perspective दिया कि आप where there was a user generated content जहां पर आप खुद जाते हैं और खुद बना सकते हैं और खुद कर सकते हैं और वह फिर आगे जो format है वह चला और काफी सारी games में आया है. तो early adopters चूंकि games होते हैं तो वह चीज़ें explore कर सकते हैं, चीज़ें दिखा सकते हैं और लोग उसको try, try out भी कर सकते और उस तरह की चीज़ें आ गई. अब metaverse essentially एक ऐसी चीज़ है जो कि एक alternate reality है और the same और the replica of the real world है which can be more immersive and interactive. इसको मैं usually ऐसे example देता हूं क्योंकि लोगों को शायद किसी एक जगह पर जाने का या कहीं घूमने फिरने का ज़्यादा शौक होता है और पाकिस्तानी let's say पाकिस्तानी Palestine नहीं जा सकते इतनी आसानी से. You cannot go to अलक्सा mosque. तो अगर मैं यहां पर बैठकर having some sort of gear of course, पहले तो वहां से बात start करते हैं. अगर मैं VR का gear पहन कर Palestine की गलियों में घूम सकता हूं और मज़दी अक्षा के अंदर जा सकता हूं तो that's, that's an, that is an experience for me कि मैं वहां पर जा रहा और हूं मैं यह काम कर सकता हूं और मैं देख सकता हूं और even if I am touching the walls तो मुझे अभी तक तो वह technology नहीं आई let's say. लेकिन बाद में अगर वह technology आ जाती है where I can actually feel the walls as well and I can also let's say pray in the inside the mosque that's an interactive, interactive, immersive, more immersive real world sort of experience जिस तरफ metaverse बाद में जाएगी. It's, it's, it's I think limited by its hardware technology right now and software आ चुका है आपका और हम लोग वह चीज़ें कर सकते हैं. अच्छा.

Muzamil

मैं It's interesting though आपने वो बात बोली कि it's it's really a matter of haptic feedback, right? Exactly. You you create suits. Exactly. This is a very interesting use case of praying in areas where which would give you a lot of peace. I remember going to Medina and the prayer there was just incredible. It just makes you feel different. Differently feel करती है. Exactly. You could just sort of feel the same way, the way that you would connect in your prayers would just be incredible. Exactly. And वही वाली बात है कि it's really about hardware where let's say you are wearing a suit with gloves and everything. Yes. और आप first को touch करते हैं तो वह suddenly ठंडा करता उसको और वह you know it's wow. I

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never imagined that. Right. So it's all of course can be and then it can be imagined and then can be made. Right. Right? तो usually एक driven काफी sci fi movies होती हैं. Ready Player One एक movie थी where you can wear that suit, do those all those quests and everything, earn things and then when you do the that challenge and आप वह तीन चीज़ें कर लेते हैं and you get the key तो वह आपको एक एक एक award at the end मिल जाता है या आप you get to achieve something in their real world जो कि actually real world में भी आपको मिल सकता है. So, that's the, that's the let's say a sense of it जो कि हम लोग ultimately achieve करेंगे कि आपकी real world plus the virtual world will converge into a point where those two can be interchangeable. It's the same way as you do the e commerce business and you sell something on बुलेंजा ने, सत्रंगी ने, किसी ने भी XYZ brand ने, एक XYZ brand ने कोई चीज़ बेची and now of course already चीज़ चल रही है कि try it on. अब आपका avatar exactly looking like yours, the same waist, same sort of neck size, same sort of hair, you can create that avatar and you try it on either way using those VR gear or without it and you can see कि अच्छा मुझ पर यह जो नई shirt इसने launch की है यह कैसी लगेगी? And you can ok take a walk, may be look in the mirror, sunlight में बाहर के लिए ठीक है या नहीं है because people can be conscious like that about their clothes. The same way it goes for makeup. Same goes for other gadgets. कुछ लोगों को कुछ gadgets ऐसे पसंद होते हैं जो कि wearables होते हैं, कुछ को ऐसी watch चाहिए. Should I spend money on it? छोड़ I know. यह e commerce की side हो गई.

Muzamil

And this is physical. So, when you already already exist and you them communicate then apparel in the industry is going to then pop up and that's where the NFT is ready to come in. Exactly.

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फिर sports भी आ जाएंगी, फिर आपकी car if if you want to sit in a Tesla, newly launched Tesla और उसका surround sound कैसा music कैसा sound करेगा और उसकी आप how will be the feel of it while sitting inside and driving somewhere in these on the roads of Manhattan probably. All that experience can be true through metaverse. Right. Of course वह gear के साथ और hardware and everything उसके साथ it will, it will become possible. That's one thing. Right. Now so far चूंकि metaverse अभी तक limited है games की तरफ और सारी चीज़ें जो भी हैं उन्होंने अपना एक coin या token generate कर लिया हुआ है उसके ऊपर वह token से either you play and you earn and you own the assets, you own the avatars, you own other things and that's how you own और वह decentralized apps का जो हम लोग बात कर रहे थे और democratization की बात कर रहे थे और जो user content generated content की बात कर रहे थे. अब आप इसी तरह की metaverses में जाकर as a game player you can create things maybe own a piece of land and do things over there and if people are for example create a game and a Roblox and if people are playing those games you are earning the money. It's a similar as well. A marketplace,

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it's other other things as well और उसकी जो conversion है वह एक token में हो रही है. But is the framework for MET? So my question is, is metaverse a framework driven by one company? Is it a framework that is decided by already a set of people like, एक होता है ना जिसमें Blu ray, Blu ray is a framework or rather a standard जिसको कोई भी factory में produce करके अपनी game में डाल के बेच सकता वह जो game डाल रहा है उसके पैसे कमा रहे है but everybody got together let's say at GSMGSMA conference जो है and they said कि इस तरह से होना चाहिए. या USB-C है या even internet है by and large. Internet की कुछ fundamentals है. Once you are in you are in nobody owns the internet effectively When it comes to the metaverse is it like के for example मैं vision pro लगाता हूँ Vision pro के ऊपर एक OS चल रहा है जो कि इस वक़्त जो कि let's say vision OS है if I am not wrong. उस vision OS में जो मुझे अभी तक नज़र आया उनकी demo से it was like उसका एक अपना एक user interface है and उन्होंने अपना वो वाला element रखा हुआ है कि you go in there are certain things that intuitively happen and then there are certain apps तो बाबर उन्होंने हमेशा अपने demos में यही दिखाया कि यार आप different apps use कर रहे हो, आप different apps use कर रहे हो. Let's assume that you open the metaverse app. Right. Once you are into that metaverse app. Is it Facebook's metaverse app? Is it happening individually driven by these corporations? Where you have to buy the real estate of Facebook's metaverse as well and then now you have to buy the real estate of this one's metaverse as well. Right. Yeah metaverse as a whole is coming together as a unified framework owned by none and everyone can create their sort of shops. Do you care what I'm trying to say? Yeah yeah. So I I got your question and

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actually these VR AR handsets are actually the means to enter those metaverses which can be created by anyone. Ok. It can be me, it can be you and we create a certain metaverse जिसके अंदर हम एक एक अभी तक games based हैं. Right. लेकिन हम उसको let's say अगर हम लोग किसी और utilitarian concept sorry utilities के concept या commodities के concept पर ले जाते ठीक games

Muzamil

को दो minute side पर रखते हैं. दिमाग में आता generally games आते हैं games के second पर social आता है. मेरे लिए social is not that big of of a utility for now. It's definitely there in terms of the use cases. मेरे लिए जो बहुत बड़ी utility आती है post COVID world के अंदर वह आती है work. Right? So, as we're going towards remote and as we're going more and more and more towards you know be wherever you are digital nomad, freelancer, this or that whatever और इसका एक follow up question भी है मेरा बल्कि मैं लिख लेता हूं मैं भूल ना जाऊं but उसके लिए ना वो एक चीज़ जब COVID आया था ना तो COVID में remote work बहुत ज़्यादा start हो गया था जब remote work बहुत ज़्यादा start हो गया तो Zoom calls होना शुरू हो गई जब Zoom calls बहुत ज़्यादा होना शुरू हो तो एक term आई थी user fatigue, Zoom fatigue की Right? जिसमें people were just like यार हम थक गए हैं इन meetings में because it's a very difficult. It's exhausting. It's exhausting. It's one thing to be sitting with someone. आप बैठे होते हो आप थोड़ा सा अंगड़ाई ले लेते हो आप चार छोटखड़े मार लेते हो. लेकिन इस case में आपने meeting join किया अब आपने सीधा होकर बैठना है आपका थोड़ा सा left right हो रहा होता है तो वो है plus things have become also very very invasive where now people are like कि जी हर पांच second बाद एक screenshot ली जाएगी. आपके desktop की screenshot ली जाएगी. पहले trust ज़्यादा होता था. तो आप करते क्या आते हैं कि you would sacrifice, the sacrifice was कि मैं drive करके office चला जाऊंगा. Right. Was very invasive because they were like यार मैं शायद ninety nine minute सब कुछ सही कर रहा हूँ. एक minute जब मैं नहीं कर रहा और उससे मैं पहले relax हो रहा था तब मुझे उसकी भी tension खानी पड़ रही है. Exactly. So मेरे लिए ना the logical progression for this a very very useful again which is why I didn't see a lot of gaming use cases coming out in Vision Pro. मेरे लिए most of the use cases that they brought were productivity अगर आपने notice किया right? They were constantly showing कि किस तरीके से आप लोगों से screen time के ऊपर वो बात कर रहे हैं वो सारा कुछ कर रहे हैं mobility बरक्रार रख के office की requirements कितना पूरी कर रहे हैं क्यों? क्योंकि मैं सुबह nine:zero बजे लड़ से उठता हूँ, मैं कहीं पर काम करता हूँ, काम मेरा services है, remote work तो services है, right? I don't have to like sit down in a factory. So services का काम है, that basically means कि मैं कोई ना कोई software पर करना है, कहीं drawing करनी है, कहीं यह वो, जो भी मुझे करना है, All of that can be done in a virtual office Right Where I have a cubicle I can sit in that cubicle and other people can exist as well in their own cubicle Then they can get up and they can look at me and they can just walk over and they can be like क्या चल रहा है? Right So it brings us to the original intuitive sort of user experience which office was done. Right. Let's assume that it was an experience. I almost out of office and I going to of it. Depends upon the organization whether they want to use it or not for their employees, right? You think this would be so this would be a metaverse let's assume an organization creates that this would be a metaverse of that organization?

Guest

If they want yes yes if they create it it will be it's it's like proprietary and the IP is of that organization where they allow or maybe they have their employees to work with them remotely and for example Nestle जो कि दुनिया भर में काफी जगहों पर है and they want their senior managers to be part of the meeting rather than flying out to somewhere in the world. Yeah. Unless they want to, really want to because they should. तो अगर Bahamas में जाकर एक conference हो सकती है why not? Right. But and I think everybody would rather opt for the physical experience than the virtual experience. But if that's not possible since with the COVID-COVID and everything और अगर दुबारा से एक खुदाना खास तो एक epidemic आ जाता है. Now you can have all that experience of course आपको वह हवा नहीं मिलेगी. वह आपको वह सारी चीज़ें नहीं मिलेंगी but you have, you have can the, you can have that human experience sitting next to you. लेकिन I think इसमें use case में ना एक थोड़ा सा flaw यह है कि हम लोग लोगों ने जो समझना छोड़ दिया था COVID में वह यह था कि how to have that work life balance and that privacy sort of border line कि जहां पर आपने invasion नहीं करनी and you don't own the lives of your employees and everything वह एक इस वजह से यह use case में ना थोड़ी सी एक चीज़ यह angle आ जाती है कि अगर it will actually change the workplace environment, it will change the way people will work. How? They'll be able to communicate better. They'll be able to see the expressions and everything better rather than just seeing the face as we are talking here और अगर हमारे एक दोनों के holograms भी होते तो we could have been able to see कि हां ठीक है मुज़मिल बैठे हुए बात ऐसे कर रहा है, expression यह है. So, it's more like a human human like physical sort of experience और वह zoom experience नहीं है. Right. और वही चीज़ें ultimately हम लोग कुछ gear से भी achieve करेंगे, कुछ different gadgets से भी achieve करेंगे जो कि आपके hologram create कर देंगे. Ultimately जो कि लेकिन एक user experience का एक angle है जो कि हम बार बार Vision Pro की बात कर रहे हैं ना मैं इसमें यह add on करना चाह रहा हूं कि Vision Pro or any other VR, AR handset is not actually at least for me personally कि मुझे नहीं वह पहना set. Getting what I mean? Why? Is it too bulky? It's just too clunky on my head, right? I want to have that experience without without wearing that gear.

Muzamil

So in its eventuality I mean the way that so you know two things I find

Guest

sorry please continue. So उसके अंदर if I can have the same sort of experience by because there is going to be a market मैं इसको ऐसे ही बता देता हूं lots of people like to wear headphones, lot of people like to wear earphones and it's the same way because they want don't want to have that clunky headset attached to their ears जहां पर वह थोड़ी देर बाद दुखना शुरू हो जाएगा और may be people who are really worried about their hairstyle जितना मैं हूं और वह कहेंगे यार मेरे बात खराब हो जाएंगे तो मैंने पहनना नहीं है. Same way the mask पहनना एक मसला हो गया था. हां. मतलब कितनी देर बंदा mask पहने because that's not very human, right? अब चलो earphones हैं, it's just in your ears. They are not disturbing your ears. आपने एक और gadget पहन लिया जिससे आपके sensors या holographic images जो सामने आने हैं, वह आपने गले में पहन लिए chewy light, that's ok. It's actually like a chain or necklace that you can wear. फिर आप आपने gloves पहन लिए जो कि very light और वह आप they are not sweating your hands and anything very light. अब यह वह चीज़ें हैं जो कि let's say आप daily basis पर पहन सकते हैं. You cannot keep wearing that handset जिसकी sorry जिसकी अभी battery life भी दो दो घंटे है. Right. वह आपको पहनकर दो घंटे पहनकर बाद करना. हां तो आपका नेक्त अद्ध होना शुक्र है. Exactly. मेरे लिए I think that was version one. Right? It was like iPhone clunky, no MMS, no nothing. There

Muzamil

are two-three areas जहां पर मुझे जो innovation है वह बड़ी excite कर रही है. एक again with 5G and 6G in its eventuality just the pace of bandwidth की speeds is going to allow for very very rapid transmission of Exactly. With that what could potentially happen is that the. अभी तक हमारा मसला यह होता है कि हमें processing के लिए ना we need to really put a lot of processing power within the device. Exactly. What I do envision in the future is that there will be a point where transmission and processing will be separated. Exactly. Right? So, मैं phone या processing device जो है अपनी pocket में रखता हूँ या back pocket में रखता या या कहीं पड़ा हुआ even cloud में processing हो रही है और actually मेरे पास सिर्फ एक display device है और एक transmission नहीं बिल्कुल. दूसरा Neuralink के ऊपर मैं बहुत seriously उसको देख रहा हूँ where Neuralink potentially as gets connected to your brain I see that evolving a decade from now where you don't need to wear the gloves you don't need to because it will build the sensation. Right. Right? So it will really natively build that sensation in your brain where जब पानी आया तो actually पानी नहीं आया but वो पानी so But a very interesting series on black marriage. Black marriage boring. I didn't like it all. Was a very interesting series on Apple TV. I recommend because I saw it and it's fascinating. Peripheral. Right. It's called the peripheral. It's very interesting concept. उसमें वह time कभी है, time travel कभी है और वह सारा कुछ है. But उसमें the core is basically this VR experience. और वह करता यह है कि वह यह कहता है कि जी वह आज का हमारा VR जो है वो हमें existing मतलब अभी भी ये मसला है कि ठीक है, मैं कहता मैं अलग से घूमने जा रहा हूँ but it's really just buttons, right? Because when I am wearing something I can't start walking, I will ram into a wall. But with Neuralink it will time potentially be a good time that device will put you to sleep and embed an experience in you where you will very organically, realistically begin to experience that and I think with the way that this is going like I will be more forty-fifty years later that the peripheral concept is also you zoom out from your main you wake up another reality but that's another body. Let's say my brother lives in Atlanta and he has a hardware body which I plug in. Theoretically, we say consciousness transfers but consciousness transfers Actually, I am it, I am it. Actually, is brain. This brain can feed it, where I am getting This brain has it. Neuralink effectively its data, listening, hearing, smelling, they feed it and I wake up and I roam around that body. I attend my niece's birthday. I am four-five घंटे लगाता हूँ, मैं वापस आता मैं वापस आकर plug out करता and I wake up in Islamabad. Right? And now as I have started to understand that this is possible. Like, you can break it down as a problem solver, as a computer scientist and you can see कि अच्छा the AR experience and with Neuralink which is bypassing. I don't know if you guys have been studying the Neuralink research. It's just phenomenal what they're doing. Exactly. You can actually potentially imagine a future like that. खैर that's way far off. Yes. But if you bring that back maybe let's say a decade from now maybe we can imagine you know smaller glasses. Google glass नहीं आया था वैसे? Exactly. Glasses is still something which I feel like I can wear for longer. So what do you think about that? That's

Guest

very interesting you know in a way because you can be somewhere where you can be and of course वह आप consciousness नहीं transfer कर रहे हैं वह आप actually data transfer कर रहे हैं and you are actually feeling it here. Yeah. और वह चीज़ें बहुत interesting वह होंगी चालीस पचास साल या maybe उससे पहले ही हो जाएंगी क्योंकि जितनी जल्दी technology evolve कर रही है हम शायद बीस तीस साल में वहीं पर पहुंच जाएं. Right. अभी की जो गैर है या अभी की जो चीज़ें हैं वह आपको कुछ चीज़ें उससे पहले की allow कर देती हैं. Of course, VR handset बेहतर हो जाएंगे, data transmission बेहतर हो जाएगी. Software खासतौर पर जो meta का अपना है not really good because they have spent like $100,000,000,000 on their own meta and I don't know what they have created sorry. So and they are still जो है किसी और का अपना वह नहीं मज़ेदार इतना आता. इतना मज़ेदार नहीं है. मतलब vision of course जब भी Apple आता है तो वह software की सारी game ले आता है ना और of course की वह vertical integration लेकर आता है next level के लिए. Exactly. मतलब वह even though कि दस साल बाद आए लेकिन जब वह चीज़ लेकर आता वह इतनी stable होती है, इतनी अच्छी और user experience actually वह focus कर रहे होते हैं तो वह इतनी अच्छी हो जाती है कि आप कहते कि यार यही है जो है वह VR handsets नहीं है. वह ऐसे ही है कि आपने Oppo का phone इस्तेमाल तो आप कर लेंगे लेकिन वह आपको user experience नहीं मिलेगा ना actually. But that's what I am trying to understand कि is it interoperable?

Muzamil

So, what I mean by that is Not at the moment. अच्छा. Not at the moment. However,

Guest

क्योंकि कुछ वह ऐसा ही है कि आपने जो meta का marketplace है वह अभी meta पर run करेगा और वह आपने meta quest two पहन के ही या riff पहन के ही आप operate कर सकते हैं. इसी तरह जो और marketplaces हैं वह जब वह interchangeable या marketplaces और open हो जाएंगी और जो कि शायद यह भी होना चाहिए जो कि हम नहीं actually भी चाहते. जब decentralize कर रहे हैं तो हम यह भी चाहते हैं कि centralize framework हो जिसके अंदर यह लोग plug in करें rather than they design the that tool. Exactly. तो मतलब वहां पर भी अगर Play Store और App Store की game चलनी है तो हम लोग यहां पर फिर decentralize और web three की बात क्यों करें? हां हां हां. हम लोग अपनी products बनाएं जो कि वहां से उसको accessible होनी चाहिए. Right. तो उसके लिए बहुत सारी important चीज़ें यह भी हैं कि जब यह communities अपने आप को इतना well structured और इतना widespread कर लें कि जो इनके ऊपर DApps और DFIs, DApps और DFIs बनी है उनकी utility ज़्यादा हो rather than these organizations जो कि वह apps बनाएं, चाहे वह Meta Quest two के through तो आप Vision Pro लेकर आप वह वाला सारा content दे सकते हो जो कि सिर्फ Apple TV पर नहीं आ रहा. हां हां हां. जो कि TBT ने अपनी app पर बनाए हैं और वहां पर अब आप TBT का coin use करते हुए आप वह use कर सकते हैं और maybe any coin that I have can be exchangeable and I can pay for TBT to watch it. Right. And that's actually it should be rather than the other way around for the web three space. Right. In terms of VR though,

Muzamil

what's the potential out there near term के अंदर? Mean vision pro आपने देखा अभी उन्होंने literally उन्होंने कुछ ज़्यादा देखा और अस्तिना there was more of a brag of the hardware. The demo was just a brag of what the hardware can achieve and it's just there are so many sensors की आपका दिमाग ही घूम जाता है कि यार मैं तो खेल के क्या क्या कुछ नहीं कर सकता हूँ. And I think that's one of the reasons why they said I think the release is next year early maybe. What next they have tried to do I feel like is that they have said एक तो one up करना चाह रहे थे Facebook को and ही जाए दूसरा I think one of the things that they were trying to do was create a space that that that demo was not necessarily targeted towards the mass market that was targeted towards the developer community where they they said कि listen this is what's coming in and you need to hop on and start building because this is where it's at And so obviously now I'd like to converge this conversation also to Algorith. And in terms of what the sort of work that you guys are doing, have you done some research on you know what is Vision Pro as a on technical level? What are some of the use cases that will begin to pop up in the future? Are there I am sure अभी तो काम तो नहीं है अभी तो सिर्फ और सिर्फ जो है ना जो in house teams है वह ही पूरी दुनिया में कर रही होंगी. जब एक दमाल launch launch हो जाएगा तो third parties भी आऐंगे वह कहेंगे यार service providers को ढूंढो उनसे को हमें भी Generally copy करवाते हैं अगर France में वह हो रहा है तो हम Tunisia में यह करते हैं तो हमें कोई service provider मिल जाए. Exactly. Have you guys dabbled into the framework and have they opened up the framework for developers?

Guest

They haven't yet. Number one. Because since we are a services and client based company, we are doing the work in VR जहां पर और ultimately we want to we also imagine कि VR से हम लोग क्या क्या चीज़ें achieve कर सकते हैं. So, for example, a client for one for we are working is the automobile showroom and the automobile experience जो को VR में बनाना चाहते हैं. So, a person sitting in New York can experience a drive of Audi on its roads while wearing that VR and also can flip flop between the colors कि अच्छा नहीं मुझे काला नहीं तो मुझे पीला चाहिए और इस तरह से चाहिए और मैंने यह और फिर मैं selection करूंगा और फिर ultimately अभी VR में मज़ीद जो चीज़ें आनी हैं वह जो कि इन्होंने Vision Pro में कर दिए, that's the surround sound. Better sound right? Right. तो VR से वह चीज़ next आ जाएगी और फिर Meta कुछ और निकालेगा और Microsoft वाले कुछ और और HTC वाले कुछ और अच्छी बेहतर technology निकालेंगे और over time ही बेहतर होती जाएगी. Right. लेकिन जो हम लोग काम कर रहे हैं different चीज़ों पर अगर उसके ऊपर थोड़ी सी बात कर लें तो we are primarily working on the metaverse. Ok. For different clients across US, Europe and some of the East Asian countries. Okay.

Muzamil

Explain it to me like this. Let's say a new client comes in just like how one of your older clients. What do they ask you to do? So

Guest

first thing is they have some idea which they want to work on and they say either it can be a game primarily or it can be a metaverse in which they are so they want to add different experiences, different games, different things at the moment. क्योंकि अभी तक जो बात metaverse पर है वह games पर ही focused है ज़्यादा और वही मैं कहना चाह रहा था कि हम लोग game से आगे भी जाएंगे और काफी सारी चीज़ें और भी होंगी although कि वह it's it's probably it's not called metaverse at the time जहां पर आप VR के ऊपर doctors को train कर रहे हैं and you are having the HR trainings

Muzamil

in of different organizations across the world. Feel like it will be called metaverse, right? Mean, metaverse is the framework. For me, it's the framework. Metaverse is just the term

Guest

for the for the experience. Yeah. Which is more immersive than web two point o. That is it. Right. क्योंकि अब जब भी हम लोगों को, हमारे पास भी बहुत सारे लोग जब शुरू में NFT, NFT it's a non fungible token like अच्छा फिर बताएं वह non fungible क्या होता है? वह जरा समझा दें. नहीं वह एक asset होता है और उस पर यह होता है. It's just a digital asset that's it. Yeah. It's just simple term. आप खान को यहां से पकड़े यहां से पकड़े

Muzamil

focused है. और वह game so what are the sort? Are they gaming companies? Or are they also third parties who are saying कि listen we want to build a or or give me a profile of the sort of people who are now interested in this space. Are they proper companies or are they more like investors or startups or what's happening there? So,

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profile तो यह भी है कि जो existing web two point o games है वह web three point o पर कैसे जाएंगे? Okay. ठीक है. हम लोगों ने पिछली जितनी भी games हमारे पास थी अब उसको web three point o में ले जाने का मकसद यह है कि एक तो ultimately उसका experience बेहतर करना है और उसको interactive बनाना और उस gear को भी at some point interact करना है. Right. Then the ownership of the assets जो कि पहले जैसा Valve ने काफी सारी ऐसी games बनाई हैं जो जिसमें आपकी ownership आ जाती है आपके पास. अब उसी को आप अपना token use करेंगे या किसी और का token use करेंगे और उसको वैसे run करेंगे. Tencent की अब अगर आठ सौ companies वह own करता है and the top owners of I mean the company which owns so many gaming studios across the world, वह कैसे अपने सारे studios को push करेगा to be on the web three. अभी recently मैंने सुना है कि SEGA ने पहले they wanted to be on the web three side and now they have sort of said कि नहीं जो crypto winter चल रहा है ना, we want, we want to hold right now. Right. So, वह अभी all across the world, they are thinking they want to be in it but they're deciding whether they want to jump in now or maybe later and or maybe how they want to do it. That's one thing. That was one use case just में existing companies they want from web two point zero to web three point zero journey करना चाहती हैं. So the other part is कि now since people can thinking or are thinking of all the ideas they can imagine and they essentially start from the games कि हम लोग इस तरह की games बनाएंगे और लोग उनको खेलेंगे और उसमें assets हमारा उनको own करेंगे. It's a play to earn concept. तो अब काफी सारे web three के startups जो पहले से भी चलती आ रही हैं वह mostly games के around ही बने हुए हैं और वह चाहते हैं कि हम उसको ज़्यादा बेहतर करते जाएं. Minecraft या Roblox की भी अगर example ले लें, you build something, you have you can create different sort of quests, missions and everything else और वह ज़्यादातर gamers से related है. अब मैं we although we at Algorite we also want think at some point creating our own product जो कि सिर्फ games से relevant नहीं होनी चाहिए because there are so many other people around the world जो पर और of course हम आज्ञास्था आज्ञास्था सबको शायद target करेंगे and that's why we were thinking at some point why not create a space where they can be something for everyone and not just for the gamers. Of course you have a gaming arena और वहां पर चले जाएं और आपको सारी battle royal type सब कुछ मिलेगा लेकिन how about if you want to go and do the shopping at the shopping mall and maybe go to the hospital and do जहां पर doctors की training होती है. It's a training institution and then there is a corporate training institution and all the possibilities जहां पर वहां पर trainers भी हैं और students भी हैं दोनों का काम हो रहा है. Bigger corporations जहां पर factories और उनकी जो उनकी training होती है, उनकी production होती है और वह सारे processes उनको actual show time create किए जाते हैं and then the tourism part. You can go to different places. So, of course काफी सारे लोगों ने उनको different बनाने की भी कोशिश कर रहे हैं. There are different sort of names omniverse, webverse, multi metaverse which we also thought about to name it. But we eventually want to go there but as a services I think we at this point in Pakistan we are limited by the skill set. Right. तो हम लोग as client की requirement को तो पूरा करने के लिए हम लोग कुछ Unreal Engine और Unity को use करते हुए हम कुछ either for mobile, for PC or for play even for consoles, PlayStation या Xbox के लिए हम लोग वह games या metaverse जो भी वह उसको coin करना चाहते हैं वह हम उसको बनाकर तो दे सकते हैं. Right. और वह चाहे low poly है, high poly है, जितना high fidelity है और आपको at least यह engines भी अब थोड़े से ज़्यादा support करते हैं कि वह high fidelity अगर हमने unreal engine support के through जाए तो हम बना सकते हैं. लेकिन the number

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in the number of resources that we can hire is limited because the skill set is not scarce. मुझे बताइए, यहां पर effectively दो किस्म के skill sets use हो रहे हैं. एक आपका game developer जो historically game developer exist करता था जो कि unity को use करना जानता है जो कि उसके पीछे उसकी फ़ल सवाल and within that framework obviously बहुत सारी और चीज़ें आ जाती हैं. Creatives आ जाते हैं, story builders आ जाते हैं, designers आ जाते हैं वगैरह वगैरह but एक वह वाला resource है और दूसरा blockchain का या sort of web three point o का resource है. Is that are these the two resources या इसमें और भी कोई areas हैं जहां पर skill set? So,

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essentially Pakistan art में तो इतना अच्छा नहीं है. Of course. जो creative sense है ना वह usually अगर client लेकर आता है या काफी सारी companies जो कि अब अच्छी story building और अच्छा art create कर रही हैं वह Pakistan में कुछ हैं. To name a few in लाहौर there is frag games, there is nascent studios and also the revolving games जो कि para caramel tech होती थी. Right. They are US based, headquartered in US लेकिन सारा काम mostly लाहौर में होता है. अब art पर हमने थोड़ा सा बेहतर कर लिया काम लेकिन जो engineering part है, जो कि actually बनाना है और उसको वह चलाना है, वह अभी तक एक challenge है. आपके पास story writers जिसना अभी एक Frag Games एक game बना रहा जो कि बहुत मज़े की game है. It's called दास्तान. It's all centered on the subcontinent और जहां पर जितनी dynasties और जितने eras गुज़रे हैं और उसको इकट्ठा एक time पर जब वह थे तो उनको इकट्ठा कर दिया जिसमें Maratas भी हैं और मुगलs भी हैं और Mongols भी हैं और अफगान भी हैं. Really interesting story on that. I think वह अपना लेकिन जो उन्होंने story writing उन्होंने कराई है वह different parts of the world India से कुछ writers लिए और वहां से लिए और उनको वह create किया है. हम लोग शायद story writers भी हमारे पास आ जाएंगे उसको मज़ीद creative करने के लिए. हमारे पास art अब बेहतर हो रहा है, नहीं हो रहा है तो हम लोग आपके पास tools ऐसे आ चुके हैं काफी सारे online और generative AI से अब आप काफी सारी if you think you can at least create a template of it, right? Right. And then you can then start tweaking it accordingly. Exactly and then can create those three d models and then start bringing them into the games and लेकिन जो engineering वाला perspective है ना. और engineering इसमें किस चीज़ की engineering वाला Unreal Engine की जो development है. वह angle अभी तक हमारा ना थोड़ा सा weak है. Right. Why? For the longest period in Pakistan जो games की companies थी वह वह काम करती थी कि वह क्योंकि Google या Play Store के जो rules and regulations हैं वह उनको allow करते थे. They used to do the reskinning and cloning and then cross marketing and then generate money and that's it. एक का दो सौ, सौ का दो सौ, दो सौ का तीन सौ, चार सौ वह हो जाता था आसानी. फिर उन्होंने regulations change करना शुरू की content, copyrights यह वह. अब उनका काम मुज़रा मुश्किल होता गया. Over time they did not focus on the quality, they focus on the quantity. अब services का मसला, services का मसला भी यह होता और services की अच्छी बात भी यह होती है कि वह एक चीज़ पर काम नहीं कर रहे होते और जब client की demand होती है कि हमें एक यह futuristic, photo real, photo realistic और बहुत ही अच्छी चीज़ चाहिए, high fertility में चाहिए या even though कि low poly चाहिए लेकिन इसके अंदर यह यह होनी चाहिए चीज़ें. So, आप अपना skill set वैसे use करते हैं और आपके services company में to start with you bring in the more generalist side of people and then you focus on कि अच्छा तुम अब सिर्फ

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technical artist हो और तुम अब सिर्फ यह वाले हो जो मैं probably इसको simply explain करूंगा कि पाकिस्तानी resource के अंदर ठहरा हो नहीं है. पाकिस्तानी resource के अंदर बस यह होता कि जल्दी जल्दी बस jump in करो और फेंक दो बजाय इसके एक जो finish आती है ना किसी भी चीज़ की वह finish हमेशा आपको missing लगती है and that's not just in game development right? That's the most aspect of our engineering जिसमें sloppy mistakes होती है आपकी app development में भी होती है आपकी वह होती है कि it's just not very it's not very clean.

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That's probably because of the product owners and that's not the engineering part because जब आप product owners या project managers अगर services में ले आए हैं और उसको they translate it in a way they have to translate it in a way कि वह it becomes a really clean good product. Right. And we ourselves because we could find that resource जो कि एक अच्छा उस चीज़ को drive कर सकता था and it could he could disintegrate it in a way कि UI वाले और UX बंदे ने यह काम करना है और technical artist ने यह काम करना है और three d modeler और three और rigging और animation ऐसी होनी चाहिए और attention to that detail कि अगर एक character की movement ऐसी होनी चाहिए जो कि natural लगे

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और उसमें शायद पांच सौ घंटे लगे हैं. Exactly. तो वह पांच सौ घंटे लगाने के लिए मतलब client शायद या product owner ready नहीं है. Exactly, that attention to detail is probably the issue. It's not that we can't do it. Right. And

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we of course वह एक different chapter खुल जाएगा professional ethics का यहां पर लेकिन अगर हम लोग सिर्फ वापस इसी पर रहें और इसी पर focus रहें कि हम लोग उस skill set को हमें masses पर create करना पड़ेगा कि अगर और काफी सारे हमारे लोग जो हैं अब उनको awareness जो games की वजह से आई है वह PUBG खेलने की वजह से आई है, Fortnite खेलने की वजह से आई है. अब शायद लोग यह सोचना शुरू कर दें कि अगर मैं PUBG और मज़े की बात यह है और बहुत अच्छी बात यह भी है कि females they are playing PUBG and now and they can probably have more interest towards creating games and being या चलो not engineering part, maybe the creative part of it or maybe the UIEX or the story boarding and the storytelling and the story writing part of it or maybe the marketing part of it. Right. Right? So, may may be now this will create more awareness amongst the youth कि हम लोग यह भी एक career path choose कर सकते हैं. तो मेरा जो for example हमारी जो team में एक senior dev आए उन्होंने कहा यार अब मैं अपने मां बाप को बता सकता हूं कि जो मेरी सारी ज़िंदगी जो मैंने games खेली हैं उसका फ़ायदा यह हो रहा है. Now I can opt it as a profession because that's my passion. Like to play games and I like to make games with the same sort of experience जो कि मैं चाहता था कि मुझे भी मिले या जिन games को मैं अब having that knowledge of 200 games probably that you have played over the years. Now you can also tell a person can tell यार उस game में UI UX बेहतर था लेकिन उस game में ना यह वाली चीज़ अच्छी नहीं थी. Inventory ऐसे होनी चाहिए, marketplace ऐसी दिखनी चाहिए, characters ऐसे दिखने चाहिए

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and if you even if you want to create your own characters तो वह ऐसे होने चाहिए. मुझे एक बात बताएं कि इस इसमें जो आपकी engineering लग रही है and and and not just core engineering इसमें तो सारे creatives का बहुत सारा काम है वो सारा कुछ है. Do you need computer scientists for all of this work? Not really. And and follow up question to that what What what's the maximum amount of time do you think it you know in terms of education चाहे वह training से हो, चाहे वह courses लेकर हो वगैरह वगैरह. What what's the amount of time Let's say it's a perfect world environment. Know. The person will be full जान मारकर में सीखना चाहता है? और सिखाने वाला भी quality का है और वह सिखा रहा है. कितना time लगेगा उस resource को एक quality resource में develop होने में? इस point पर कि अब वह can come in and learn the rest on the job. Right.

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Okay, one angle is that there are many aspects even in game development and Unity if you have seen it or unreal. But we have done this experiment. For example, a really good resource. Haven't done game development ever before but चीता अच्छा programming का. Right. And he can do really good programming. He had he has done on work on other technologies. Right. We got that resource और वह चीता था चूंकि वह logically और critical thinking में बहुत अच्छा चल सकता है. उसने वह काम करता है. We did our experiment like five to six months में he was, he has become the resource that can generate really good and really good value and create some good experiences. Right. तो four to five months of course.

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But four to five वह है जो कि computer science background वाला जिसको already वह fundamentals पता है. Yes. लेकिन अब Unreal Engine में फ़ायदा यह है कि उन्होंने अपने

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no code development पर ज़्यादा focus कर रहे हैं. Right. वह blueprints create कर चुके हुए हैं और blueprints आप use करते हुए आप different experiences, different games और काफी सारी ऐसी detailed games भी हैं जो कि सिर्फ blueprints पर बनी हुई हैं. Right. So, there you don't need that computer science experience. You can have any academic background but if you can think critically

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and logically. क्योंकि मेरे दिमाग में यह आता है यार जो video editing में यही होता है. You have to think critically and logically. It's a tool you are using and there is a kid coming to the office he is 17 years old and he has been editing on mobile. इसको ना वो मेरी team में एक खायम साहिद बड़ी जानते हैं सब लोग. Yes. उन्होंने उनको एक task दिया कि यार ये जो है वो आप edit निकाले ठीक है मेरे ख्याले first या second day of using premiere since 17 year old kid the edit that he brought out was just it was mind numbing मैं एक university graduate को बैठा दूं ना वो नहीं निकाल सकता क्योंकि उस बच्चे का दिमाग था अब वो tool एक नया tool बहुत complicated tool he was able to do that for me as long as अगर वो no code point पर जाता है तो its not going to take a lot of time. अब skill this 17 year old to A कि यार तू बैठ और बैठ के unity के ऊपर पूरा environment बना और उसके बाद characters बनाओ और एक और वह कर. So that's where I see a lot of utility क्योंकि मुझे लगता है कि video editing, graphic designing इसमें बहुत हमारा talent इस वक्त इस वक्त use हुआ है. Yes. जो कि AI will be able a use it Because AI will be able to design the site, then it will critical thinking than copy pasting an idea. Exactly. So, critical thinking than it go able to some sort of another tool based skill set. Exactly. Where do you think there is an opportunity in the no code area of smart kids upskilling themselves and coming in and if yes, how much time do you think that's going to take them to be able to really begin to be useful resources?

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So I think जो कि no code area है that's going to take its own fair time if if a person can only do the logical thinking and the critical thinking and of course if you know the end result कि आपको actually बनाना क्या है और किस तरह का experience आप generate करना चाहते हैं उसमें फिर VFXP आ जाएंगे, SFXP आ जाएंगे और बहुत सारी चीज़ें आ जाएंगे. That person if they spend like six months to eight months religiously not learning actually making क्योंकि you can learn it. You can actually Google everything कि अच्छा मैंने अगर यह चीज़ करनी है तो यह कैसे हो जाएगी? कौन से blueprint में क्या क्या inputs होंगे? क्या outputs होंगे? यही आपको साथ साथ जो है ना वह actually implement करना है that's when you start to fail and then realize किसके So, fix किसके साथ हो actually अगर आप यह imagine कर सकते हैं कि आपने ultimately बनाना क्या है तो आप वह बनाना you can take that path. आपको assets भी online मिल जाएंगे. आपको characters भी online मिल जाएंगे सारे assets and then there are companies जो कि आप customized characters और assets बनाकर दे रहे हैं. मतलब there can be everything can be available but the integration and the making of it is the is the part where they need to focus on and then when they can focus on it many six to eight months में ना एक हज़ार conservatively बोले. Somebody can probably learn it into two three months. We have a couple of interns who are working with us who have just joined और पता नहीं कराची में कोई खास ही आबू हवा है कि जब वहां से लोग आते हैं ना तो वह एक खास किस्म की energy लेकर आते हैं. तो वह वह I think वह जो धंधा mentality है ना कि भाई काम करना है और बताओ. हां. काम करना है. सीखने आए हम. साराबादी are very complacent. Exactly. Yeah. तो वहां वह हमें energy feel होती है कि they are like यार आज यह करके उठेंगे और आज यह करना है और आज हमने वह करना है. So, interesting use cases from us कि हम लोग फिर खाएल क्या कराची से करें सारे लोग आगे जाते हुए और सारे remote हैं and and somehow the professional ethics are much better. अच्छा. From here. People from here, from इस्लाहाबाद बिंडी of course हमारे पास जो seniors हैं वह यहीं इस्लाहाबाद बिंडी के हैं but और उनके professional ethics बहुत मज़ेदार हैं, अच्छे हैं, decent हैं but somehow the other the younger resources और जो Gen Z वाला issue है

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वह एक ज़्यादा एक है. Gen Z वाला issue तो एक है. I don't even get me started this. Yes, तो ultimately I think we we we

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लोग AIR university गए they have a dedicated program for game development. But what I think is they are doing they are touching like really surface level things कि अच्छा यार यह unity में ना ऐसे हो जाता है बस. Then there is there are institutions like Game Train जो कि basic level सिखा देते हैं and then you can you know turn out. अब जो कि एक बहुत interesting चीज़ है कि Pakistan में Quigzil को Epic Games ने acquire कर लिया है और वह अब Epic Games Pakistan है और Epic Games Pakistan है focus कर रहा है कि हम लोग community भी build करें और हम लोग developers भी लाए और उनको train भी करेंगे. अब उनके जो unreal engine authorized instructors होते हैं UAIs they can do that basic level training. Right. And then what we also drafted as a curriculum in house कि हम लोगों को actually उन बच्चों को क्या सिखाना है so that they can work on as a generalist, they can work on different projects. हमें एक challenge मैं आपको यह भी बता दूं हमें यह भी आया कि हमने किसी एक अच्छी company जो कि Unreal Engine पर पहले काम कर रही थी और हमने जब उस बच्चे को interview किया तो हमें समझ में आई कि वह सिर्फ बहुत ही एक focused एक

Muzamil

you are working in a space but you really have to navigate through. यह पुराना वक्त होता था कि आपने एक career बनाया, एक space बनाया और चालीस सालों में गुज़ार. यार. तो आपका things evolve so rapidly that you really have to be open to you know sort of evolve. ज़ाहिर है का यह नहीं कह रहे किसी को कि यार तुम एक दिन app बना रहे एक दिन अच्छे से बना रहे एक game बना रहे हो. But within that space you have to sort of flip flop. We are at the one hour fifty minute mark. Again one of the longest we have done recently. There is still a lot more जो हमने originally discuss किया था I really wanted to get into the talent part of things there is lot more there and also game development के अंदर जो अब depth है वह हमने करनी थी but it's interesting you've mentioned epic games Pakistan we be having the founder of Quixel very very soon I've been chasing him for a couple of years but he messaged me recently he said you know there is some exciting news coming and we'd love to come in now and share that news as well so I am excited for that conversation. तनाह this was super super insightful. If someone wants to understand the sort of work that you guys do and you know क्या आप कर रहे हैं? क्या services हैं? Where can they go?

Guest

They can come to us on our website. We of course sort of showcase what services we are giving but the sort of work we are doing we haven't got the chance to go ask at a point from our clients कि अगर आप हम इसको showcase करना शुरू हैं because of NDAs. Right. Because they want to launch it at a certain date and we have done so much of it actually the whole of it. They are bound by that unfortunately. But as soon as they launch it we will start promoting it as our work of course जब हम उन्होंने उनसे यह तो कहा हुआ है कि हमारे पास अगर कोई client आता है हम लोग उनको यह showcase कर सकते हैं in the bits and pieces of it so yes we do that

Muzamil

ज़मरदार, so if you can send your links the relevant links because I can definitely find them out right I want you to send the right ones to वर्धा and we will have them integrated down in the comment section below not the comment section description section so that you guys can check them out it's very interesting it's very innovative again this is the sort of company that you're hearing about now and you're like क्या सीने but it's really gonna be shining a decade from now because they're in a space that is just I mean मैं net practice भी नहीं करूंगा अभी मैं करूं nets बिछ रहे हैं to begin the net practice and it's exciting, it's it's powerful and it's it's we're at a time where really जो last ten years थे not a lot has changed it's just the same adding on top of it but this decade I genuinely feel like is going to really change the way that we live our जो जो हमारा living experience है वह बहुत ज़्यादा evolve करेगा and there will be people who will be at the forefront of it. Will have one of them. Sir thank you so much for coming and sharing all that insight.

Guest

Thank you very much for having me and just one last thing that I want to say we are already trying to build that community called Algoverse और usually हम उसको Discord pick कर रहे हैं because हम लोग उसमें सिर्फ यह discussion कर रहे हैं कि things that we can do and how we can do it. Right. That's it. If someone would someone of relevance

Muzamil

wants to join

Guest

can they? Is it open? Yeah, it's all open. We have a link on the website as well. I'll share the link with you as well. Again, we'll put the link down below as well and अब वह बहुत अगर

Muzamil

spam बंदा आता तो वह उसको साफ करना आपका काम है. But we'll put the link down. That's exciting. I would love to join as well if you could give me the opportunity but thank you so much for coming in and sharing all that insight thank you very much for having me and for all of you guys thank you so much for watching and आपको यह episode पसंद है हमें दोस्तों हमारे साथ ज़रूरी करिएगा नीचे comment section में आकर बताएं what do you think about the future of the internet What do you think about decentralized apps, decentralized finance and particularly what do you think about metaverse and vision pro? How do you think that's going to change the way that we're interacting on the digital space? I would love to hear your thoughts but anyways YouTube वाले like का button दबाएंगे engagement बढ़ गई ज़्यादा लोगों में इसे conversation पहुंचेगी. Audio platform और subscribe का button दबाएंगे आने वाले episodes का notification मिलेगी. यहां पर कहीं पर easy पैसा जाए इसका ये ज़्यादा pay आ रहा होगा. Are watching Thought Behind Things. Thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.