Entries tagged with: Second Life
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Topsight, February 25, 2009
Quick hits: • Cybermermaid: Nadya Vessey lost the lower parts of her legs, so she decided to become a mermaid. Much to her surprise, New Zealand special effects group Weta agreed to help her out. After seeing Ms Vessey test...
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...
Tuesday Topsight, January 30, 2007
Multiple deadlines this week, plus meetings -- but interesting stuff keeps rolling in. • SimCollapse: Green LA Girl Siel gave me a heads-up about "Climate Challenge," a Flash-based simulation game produced by the BBC that gives players a chance to...
The Virtue of a Virtual Life -- Perfect Health
Got back from DC late on Wednesday night, and woke up yesterday with the inevitable consequence of travel: a cold. I managed to drag myself to the WC event at the Commonwealth Club last night, but have spent all day...
If You're in the SF Area Tonight...
Philip Rosedale, one of the founders of Second Life, will be speaking at the monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking series run by Long Now. (He's a last-minute replacement for Frank Fukuyama, who apparently nearly reached his own End of History...
CopyBot and the Abundance Economy, Revisited
Lots of good observations in the comments to my post from a few days ago, Second Life, Economic Evolution and the CopyBot. Rather than try to address them in the comment thread, I thought I'd go ahead and bring them...
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...
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