Comments on: SLife in Las Vegas: Virtual Worlds Everywhere

By: Desmond Shang

Desmond Shang — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:05:52 +0000

Fascinating.

Wouldn’t you know it, but at about the same time I was at Downtown Disney with Infinity Linden, Muse Carmona (of Caledon!), Eddy Stryker, Zha, an “area” director and a number of other really smart folks working on the future of virtual worlds… at the IETF conference here in So Cal. Yep, I finally met a few people ‘in the real’… as inefficient as that sounds! Great people, too. One does have to consider the paradoxical concept of a nonvirtual IETF meeting… isn’t that a bit odd, somehow, for the architects of the internet?

I had a quiet ‘come check it out’ invite to the actual conference itself, but couldn’t make it ~ which was really too bad. I may not understand the issues, but I *can* hum! (that’s how they vote)

Most of the snippets and bits they were discussing, as best as I could tell, amounted to big picture stuff… not exactly with regard to this specific platform or that. In 10 or 20 years, if we ever end up with a truly sorta global ‘cyberspace’ (and I suspect we shall, just because the idea is too painfully obvious)… the discussions they had this week will probably factor in deep into whatever it becomes.

It’s quite remarkable, really. IETF is broad and nuanced, from all I saw… but even so, a handful of people could really still change the future.

And if none of it ever comes to pass… hey, that was still a great salad that evening anyway

By: cube

cube — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:19:21 +0000

i think your wrong.

tools. media. accelerate and scale damage– as well as possible good- that can be done. they scale our effects on this one globe we live on.

the damage (human) done quicker and on a global scale can now be quite unreversable for us. human spirit requires humans… eh?

Eichmann didnt have Oppenheimers team… if he did, youd be having this debate alone.;) since my spirit wouldnt be haunting dusan’s blog.;)

balance is the goal… cynicism only interior… its what we do that matters.

By: Marty Snowpaw

Marty Snowpaw — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:41:01 +0000

you miss the point of my post Cube….we are NOT accelerating….there is no acceleration…the balance is the same…life can be ugly, mean and brutish and can also be a rose….The killer is the cynicism that creates self fulfilling prophecies and a loss of faith in the human spirit. There are no new evils… Eichmann was as efficient as Henry Ford. It takes courage to not only see but to act on the spark…to see the light, to make the choice to focus on the light. Exuberance and ‘aha’ moments are not the product of naiveté, innocence or stupidity but rather the achievement of wisdom and insight. With negativity and the absence of light we can see nothing and forever will remain unchanged and ignorant.

By: cube

cube — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:04:35 +0000

Resistance is never futile.. right.
But we are quickly accelerating to a time and scale when it will be considered “unimportant”.

and that’s the real challenge.

By: Marty Snowpaw

Marty Snowpaw — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:22:27 +0000

Resistance is never futile…the tension line is life as we know it…a dialectic. Read Prok’s post: http://bit.ly/dc9jUx. Electronic Arts is no more a challenge to our humanity than any other algorithm. During the Inquisition it was human beings, not avatars, that were burned at the stake. Brave New World, Animal Farm, 1984, and 2001 A Space Odyssey get written and now the phone companies and Google will get their shot at blowing out the spark, killing the light. Nope…don’t think so.

By: Lalo Telling

Lalo Telling — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:57:09 +0000

Every once in a while, current trends remind me that our worldline is catching up with Max Headroom. Remember the Blanks?

Resistance is still not futile.

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By: cube

cube — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:48:20 +0000

Right now all of us are just stagnating in our “bread and circuses”.

” A SIMPLE EXECUTION – BUY A JUPITER 6 !”
bread and circuses – star trek TOS style:)

By: melponeme_k

melponeme_k — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:48:26 +0000

Until everyone has the realization that they are stuck in a literal box both in RL theme parks and VR theme parks, then there will be progress (and heaven help us living areas designed with the same kind of plan).

Right now all of us are just stagnating in our “bread and circuses”.