Recently I participated indirectly in the The Foresight Insitute’s Vision Weekend. I joined Melanie Swan’s tour of Nanotechnology Island on Second Life which she conducted live as part of her virtual worlds presentation to the unconference.
I was delighted to meet Melanie, the principal of MS Futures Group, for breakfast in New York City a few days later. She is a futurist and hedge fund manager based in Silicon Valley. Melanie has a highly nuanced understanding of the intersection of technology with social, political, legal, regulatory and economic regimes (see her post here). Melanie is also one of the organizers of She’s Geeky. Unfortunately I couldn’t make the lunch last Saturday here in New York City to discuss She’s Geeky EAST this winter.
Melanie and I had a fascinating discussion over breakfast about many aspects of the metaverse including it’s potential use as a platform for Artificial General Intelligence. Ben Goertzel (see my post on Ben Goertzel’s work here) also presented on “AGI meets the Metaverse” at the Vision Weekend and Melanie mentioned the very interesting work of Monica Anderson who presented her Artificial Intuition approach.
Picture is of Melanie Swan in NYC and on Nanotechnology Island in Second Life.
Mon, Nov 19, 2007