Will we see growth in the metaverse similar to that of the World Wide Web in the 1990s? One source shows there were fewer than 3,000 websites in 1994, but just five years later, there were more than 3 million, and being “on the web” was essential for many businesses.

The growth of the Internet in the 1990s was fueled by rapid technological change, rising customer expectations, and evolving business models, among other factors. It required a sea change in IT functions, and for the past two decades, almost every company needed software development, integration, data, analytics, customer experience, automation, and e-commerce capabilities to stay solvent.

The question is which companies will require a similar transformation to support…