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The Foresight Institute’s Vision Weekend

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 […]

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What The Metaverse Can Teach The Paraverse: Don’t be boring!

Last Saturday I went to the Book Party (and after hours party) celebrating the launch of, “Second Life Herald, the Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse” by Peter Ludlow (Urizenus Sklar in SL) and Mark Wallace (Walker Spaight in SL). The book, a history of the Second Life Herald which began in […]

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Cory Doctorow – A Reverse Surveillance Society

“Surveillance is all about when people in authority know a lot about you. Instrumentation is when you know a lot about the world,” Cory Doctorow, Craphound.com, boingboing.net When we spoke at the Virtual Worlds Forum in London last week, Cory Doctorow outlined a vision of how ways individuals tap into data and metadata to create […]

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