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Ordinary People Are Making The Metaverse
“It’s an attitude not a technology.”

12. May 2007

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These pictures are taken by Yanahin Wauja, the indigenous photographer and filmmaker who is featured at the beginning of my previous post Virtual Amazon and Metaverse Evangelism. He has a real eye for both the artistic and social relevance of photography. The women are throwing Manioc paste at the men, a very daring and provocative […]

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Virtual Amazon and Metaverse Evangelism

7. May 2007

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A recent story in World Changing, about Free Internet for Conservation Efforts in the Amazon led me to have a long conversation with Marcelo Fortaleza Flores. We discussed how the arrival of internet access in remote areas of the Amazon could be empowering to indigenous communities. I will go over the the major points of […]

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“Real” Life Dreams and “Virtual” Realities

3. May 2007

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Virtual Worlds will change the nature of who we are. This type of experience changes you, makes you demand change in the real world that is so easy to change in virtual environments…..this technology ends up changing us as people.” Philip Rosedale, Virtual Worlds 2007. I found this drawing on the Clear Night Sky blog. […]

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