Entries tagged with: Metaverse

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Advanced Griefing in the Material World

This happened a couple of years ago, but I was just reminded of it again recently (and it didn't receive the attention it deserves). The story of the Guiding Hand Social Club and the Valentine Operative offers one scenario of...

Posted on June 24, 2008 3:59 PM

The Griefer Future

Nice little future you got there. Hate to see something bad happen to it. The blending of the physical and immersive digital worlds -- the metaverse -- inevitably produces bizarre results. I've noted (and we've started to see examples of)...

Posted on June 23, 2008 2:47 PM

The Metaverse: Your Life, Live and in 3D

My talk at the Stanford Metaverse Meetup on November 27 is now available as a video. Streaming Flash. Downloadable Quicktime (warning: big, big file) The whole thing runs for nearly 90 minutes, including both the talk and the Q&A (there's...

Posted on December 11, 2007 10:31 AM

Talking About the Metaverse & the Singularity

Just a few updates for those of you who like to hear these things: My talk at the Metaverse Meetup the other night went splendidly, and the video should be available real soon now. For those of you who can't...

Posted on December 3, 2007 5:23 PM

Metaverse Meetup, now with More Information!

The Metaverse Meetup organizer, Henrik Bennetsen, provides greater detail -- along with directions for both real and virtual attendance: For our second Metaverse Meetup we are truly pleased to present Jamais Cascio one the authors of the Metaverse Roadmap. Our...

Posted on November 26, 2007 1:55 PM

Hear Me in Canada (and on the Interwebs)

Spark, a show on CBC Radio 1 and on Sirius Satellite 137 hosted by Nora Young, interviewed me last month on a variety of subjects. Part one of that interview is now available, part of the October 17 show (along...

Posted on October 17, 2007 3:07 PM

Thursday Topsight, October 11, 2007

I have too many windows open to pages that I really would like to post extensive commentary on if I can just get around to it. • Virtual Ownership: Herman Miller makes the Aeron chair, and (quite appropriately) doesn't like...

Posted on October 11, 2007 7:11 PM

My Talk at the Singularity Summit

Anyone who wants to hear the presentation, here you go: MP3 of my talk (~30 minutes) Let me know what you think. BTW, the first third or so just covers the metaverse roadmap; the real fun part starts when I...

Posted on September 24, 2007 12:29 PM

Singularity Summit Talk: Openness and the Metaverse Singularity

The following is the text of the presentation I'm giving today at the Singularity Summit. I've set the post to go live at the same time I go onto the stage. Update: this is now the corrected version, with the...

Posted on September 8, 2007 2:00 PM

Metaverse Roadmap Report

After months of work, the Metaverse Roadmap Overview is now available for download; get it here as a PDF. Written by Jerry Paffendorf, John Smart and me, the Overview is the end-result of the first Metaverse Roadmap project meeting, in...

Posted on June 25, 2007 3:26 PM

Metaverse in Tech Review (and a small request)

The latest issue of Technology Review contains a lengthy, very well-researched story on the Metaverse, written by Wade Roush. Wade interviewed me for the piece, and I have a couple of reasonably accurate quotes included therein; he also pulls from...

Posted on June 19, 2007 5:38 PM

The Surface of the Metaverse

Tonight, Microsoft announced its new "Surface" multi-touch interface and hardware system. Looking for all the world like one of those old Ms. Pac Man video game tables found in older bars and pizza joints, the Surface device combines a high-power...

Posted on May 29, 2007 9:38 PM

Metaverse Roadmap Report

I'm more-or-less done now with my part of the report for the Metaverse Roadmap Project. Jerry Paffendorf and John Smart each wrote parts of the overall document, but my (very large) chunk is the set of scenarios describing four different...

Posted on April 15, 2007 5:53 PM

User Creation Panel, SXSW2007

Mark Wallace at 3pointD.com has a pretty darn complete recap of the panel I was on today at South-by-Southwest. Most interesting line, from Raph Koster: The number one use of user-created content in virtual spaces is the screenshot. (Update:) Another...

Posted on March 11, 2007 9:59 PM

Second Life, Economic Evolution and the CopyBot

Two related quotes from previous Open the Future posts: When you are able to manipulate atoms as easily as you do bits, the rules of the bit world apply. The rules we come up with to grapple with virtual objects...

Posted on November 16, 2006 6:36 PM

Implant Rejection

How'd you like a computer in your head? Brain implants are staples of both science fiction and speculative conversations about the future. I noted a few months ago that a surprisingly large portion of the Metaverse Roadmap crowd considered brain...

Posted on October 6, 2006 4:02 PM

Fringehog Awakens

Earlier this year, I was asked to join a podcast group calling itself Fringehog (and no, I don't know why). Founded by accomplished professional futurists Sandra Burchsted and Michele Bowman, Fringehog assembles a variety of ideas about the future into...

Posted on September 26, 2006 4:30 PM

Interview: Julian Dibbell

I have started an online interview with Julian Dibbell, author of Play Money, over at the Inkwell conference at The Well. Inkwell is one of the visible-to-the-public sections of the Well, and web readers are encouraged to send in questions....

Posted on September 21, 2006 1:46 PM

Abundance, Scarcity and Beta-Testing Tomorrow

I often cite molecular nanotechnology as a transformative technology because of its significant potential implications, especially societal implications. In principle, given inputs of relatively common raw materials (including materials recycled from objects no longer in use), a full-fledged nanofabrication device...

Posted on September 12, 2006 3:23 PM

(Virtual) Weapon Smuggling

Three men in Shanghai were convicted this week on charges of producing and selling weapons -- only the weapons existed solely as computer data for a virtual world. Prosecutors allege the trio earned illegal profits of more than 2 million...

Posted on September 6, 2006 5:06 PM

Future of the Future

The next five days will see a potentially interesting -- at least to me -- intersection of a variety of important dynamics I've been following closely. • Global guerillas, or the reaction to them. What should be an hour wait...

Posted on August 22, 2006 11:16 PM

Tuesday Topsight, July 11, 2006

I had the somewhat surreal experience last night of participating in a focus group on the California energy industry. My experience was odd because, about a quarter of the way through, the moderator was called out by the faceless folks...

Posted on July 11, 2006 1:35 PM

McWorldRun

Ah, only if this were real... The International Serious Games Event in Birmingham, UK, was very likely pranked today by an anti-McDonald's activist group claiming to be a division within McDonald's called "McDonald's Interactive." Supposedly a group helping to train...

Posted on June 6, 2006 2:49 PM

Days of Futurism Past

Those who cannot remember the futurist predictions of the past are condemned to repeat them, usually at conferences. That was the mantra running through my head, at least, during the Metaverse Roadmap Project event last Friday and Saturday. This is...

Posted on May 9, 2006 4:57 PM

Metaverse Roadmap Underway

The first day of the Metaverse Roadmap Project is hurtling to its conclusion, and it's been a mixed bag of small group discussions and plenary lectures, all playing blind men around an elephant, groping out what the "metaverse" future could...

Posted on May 5, 2006 4:11 PM

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