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Wave of the Future?
While there has been much ink spilled and many pages printed about how teenagers communicate in the digital age, one thing is clear: an entire generation will soon be graduating from high school and college with a habit of building friendships, seeking entertainment, buying products and services in ways that circumvent the communications technologies of [...]
Getting the Most Out of Twitter
Getting the Most Out of Twitter – http://nyti.ms/dqg9cU
Books About Virtual Reality
If you want to get an idea of how big the virtual reality movement is, and how broad its implications are, just take a quick tour of the books on this topic. Of course, one might consider it ironic that one of the main factors in what is supposed to be a migration away books [...]
A Life of Its Own
In the days when literature was supreme, one of the highest compliments one could pay to a writer was that a character in a work of fiction took on “a life of its own.” The impression being that the portrayal was so “real” that the character jumped off the page to take on a life [...]
Art, Philosophy and Virtual Reality
For any number of reasons, several of which are explored on these pages, virtual worlds offer fertile soil for artists, philosophers, theologians … in fact, anyone, with a penchant for reflecting on the meaning of life. The short movie (referred to by virtual world enthusiasts as “machinima”) now showing on YouTube and linked to below, [...]
Everyone Knows Everything
“Everyone Knows Everything”
– Alan R. Mulally, CEO, Ford Motor Company
Thus, people around the world will have the same information, allowing them to select an automobile made for a world market, according to Ford’s CEO. But the declaration: “Everyone knows everything,” applies to much more than just cars. With information becoming ubiquitous, will there also emerge [...]
Cell phone use a cure?
Cell phone use a cure for Alzheimer’s? LOL Something tells me they cause dementia. http://kliq.my/7rw
White House Rep Hosts Meeting About Digital Technology
This from Amanda Linden on the Second Life blog:
Yesterday, Beth Noveck, the Deputy Chief Technology Officer at the White House and the person responsible for Open Government, held a mixed-reality event co-sponsored by the Markle Foundation and Global Kids, to discuss her new book “WIKI GOVERNMENT: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and [...]
Virtual Hype
The Fashion Research Institute today posted this ad:
NEW YORK — May 4, 2009 — Today Fashion Research Institute announced its short course for avatar apparel design for virtual worlds. This fast-paced course takes a student from novice user to functional avatar apparel designer by building essential skills in just 20 hours of instruction. Students completing [...]
Television Sucks!
New research shows that television is the greatest consumer of human life, literally an angel of death. You think our education system is failing? It’s not the system that is failing, it’s the individual decisions of citizens to tether their minds to a totally passive medium for more than five hours every day. This is [...]