Is Nokia really predicting the end of smartphones at the hands of the metaverse? Could Bitcoin really be worth a MILLION dollars one day? Crypto news, huh? Wild things.

It seems so, if you believe A) the legacy mobile phone telecommunications company and B) Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood. In any case, she generates eye-catching headlines. Calling Nokia first, then…

Metaverse in, phones out – by 2030

Do you remember your first mobile phone? Mine was a Nokia, given to me by a fellow journalist and which I soon lost in a Chatswood pub. A drunk in a North Sydney Bears T-shirt could still be in a corner with him to this day, figuring out how to play backgammon or Snake.

Anyway, Nokia, now controlled by Finnish brand HMD Global, is now glass…