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The Archives
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02.02.09Change Comes to Washington, and I’m a Week Late: Virtual Worlds inside the BeltwaySomehow Washington and innovation seem like strange bed fellows to me, but there I was last week talking about mirror worlds at a conference hosted by In-Q-Tel for a mix of civil servants and spies or whatever, and found that they asked the kinds of questions that I've been asking and never quite answering: stuff like "what will it take to make the metaverse ubiquitous" or "what does it all mean to human identity". And what felt even stranger to me was that inside the Beltway they actually seemed to "get" virtual worlds, or this little self-selected crew did, and there ...
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12.15.08De-Meming Malcolm Gladwell 2OK, I think I have it in for this guy. Seriously. I need help. A friend brought a copy of Outliers to dinner last night. I mean....what a way to get the conversation off to a rocking start. And now, via Twitter, I discover that Gladwell is AGAIN STATING THE OBVIOUS, packaging it as a meme, and spitting it out there. This is unfair of me. I haven't even read his latest New Yorker piece, however, I see the Gladwell fingerprints all over this one, summarized on BlogHER. And if you read my last post, you'll know the signs: - ...
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